Mexico: private numbers disclosed on social networks, Claudia Sheinbaum target of hate messages
Claudia Sheinbaum, candidate for the ruling left-wing party in the June 2 presidential election, says she is receiving hateful calls and messages after her phone number was disclosed on social media.
(archives from 2018) Andrés Manuel López Obrador, current president, alongside Claudia Sheinbaum who hopes to succeed him as president in the June 2024 election. AFP/Archivos
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Today, I constantly receive calls and hate messages because someone published my cell phone number on social networks
,” accused Claudia Sheinbaum, candidate of the ruling left party for the presidential election of
June
2
, on the social network
The day he received messages without parar y odio messages (like the muestro) can be published by my cell phone number in social networks.
It is obvious that you have to harm yourself, of course your attacks are as harmless as they are.
The numbers that deberían… pic.twitter.com/nCFXF5f7lc
—Dra.
Claudia Sheinbaum (@Claudiashein) February 24, 2024
A little earlier, José Ramón López Beltrán, one of the president's sons, had also denounced the leak of his private number on the same social network.
Touring the state of Sinaloa (northwest), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador described the disclosure of his son's details as "
shameful
" and accused his political opponents of being behind it.
Two days ago, the Mexican president made public, during a press conference, the telephone number of a
New York Times
journalist who was the author of an investigation into the supposed links of the presidential entourage with trafficking drug.
He read live the email - including contact details - that the journalist had sent him
.
An investigation was subsequently opened by the Mexican body in charge of data protection.
According to the
New York Times
investigation , published Thursday in English and Spanish, investigations by American officials made it possible to discover “
possible links between powerful cartel operators and officials and advisors
” of the president.
The article claims that someone close to the head of state met Ismael Zambada, one of the bosses of the
Sinaloa Cartel
, before his electoral victory in 2018. “
The United States never opened an official investigation against Lopez Obrador and the officials in charge of the investigation archived it
,” specifies the
New York Times
.
Also read: Mexican president accused of receiving funding from the Sinaloa cartel during the 2006 campaign
Functions of EE.
UU.
pasaron años indagando posibles vínculos entre los carteles de la droga y aliados del presidente de México.
The information, at the end, was already there, it was recorded in the records.
https://t.co/4LhI7oqtsp
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) February 24, 2024
Two other similar articles have been published in international media in recent weeks, based on anonymous American sources, which Mr. López Obrador attributes to an attempt to derail Ms. Sheinbaum's candidacy.
Ms.
Sheinbaum, former mayor of Mexico City
, will face in the elections Xochitl Galvez, candidate of a coalition of three opposition parties, and Jorge Alvarez Máynez, of the Citizen Movement party (center left).
Read alsoIn Mexico, a women's duel for the 2024 presidential election
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