Manlio Fabio Beltrones, featured in this post yesterday, today offered more details about having been spied upon. Three documents, titled Plan of Action, Vulnerabilities, and Recommendations, demonstrated that someone was keeping tabs not only on Beltrones and other legislators, but also on eight different governors. Interestingly, the governors come from the ruling-party PAN as well as Beltrones' PRI. Mexico's spy agency, Cisen, as well as the cabinet member to whom it ultimately reports, Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño, both denied having anything to do with the documents. Beltrones' response: "I have no doubt that it comes from the government. Who is trying to help the president?"
A lot of questions remain, but it seems from his response that Beltrones wants to limit the vulnerability of President Calderón, who has been a useful ally for the past year and a half, and treat it all as the work of some misguided and overzealous subordinate. That seems far-fetched; someone high up would have had to authorize the monitoring of one of Mexico's five or six most powerful men. Also, why would anyone less than a big-shot care about the broad strategic questions implied by the titles of the documents? This should be outraging people (especially Calderón, if he had nothing to do with it), but so far the scandal's burned slowly.
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