Politics: Revelations by hackers and a new book provide a thorough look at organized crime and alleged government corruption

MEXICO - Report 17 Oct 2022 by Guillermo Valdes and Francisco González

In the past two weeks, President López Obrador’s critics were handed two unforeseen sources of information with which to bolster their case against the current administration. The first consists of many thousands of documents and emails from and regarding the Armed Forces made public by hackers who managed to penetrate servers at the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena). That haul continues to deliver new information regarding the government’s fight against organized crime, or lack thereof. It also provides a detailed picture of the state of organized crime in Mexico, listing which major cartels and lesser criminal outfits hold sway over specific states and regions, as well as speculation and more formal assessments of the extent to which officials at all levels of government have dealings with the cartels and other criminals.

The second source of information was the release of a book containing a personal account of the illegal manner in which AMLO financed his electoral campaigns and his political movement from 2005 to 2018. This week we delve deeper into both sources and their political implications.

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