The presidential candidate of the Mexican opposition Xóchitl Gálvez denounced this Sunday the leak of her telephone number on social networks, But he asserted that he will not change it because, although he received hate messages, words of affection also arrived.
“They leaked my phone number and messages haven’t stopped coming. Worry, because no one can stop this anymore,” Gálvez said in a video message posted on his X account.
In the publication, the candidate of the opposition National Action Parties (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Parties (PRI) and the Democratic Revolution (PRD), published her phone number “in case you don’t have it yet,” she ironized.
He asserted that this was a result of the “terrible” example of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who on Thursday, February 22, 2023, disclosed the telephone number of The New York Times correspondent, Natalie Kitroeff, which was in a letter that the journalist sent him to find out his position on a report that related him to drug trafficking.
He said that for this reason many more telephone numbers were published “in bad faith” (in bad faith), including Gálvez’s, although he pointed out that he has decided not to change it.
This despite the fact that he has received messages criticizing his extra kilos and his crooked teeth.
“Don’t worry, that goes away. What does not go away is the love of the hundreds of messages of support, encouragement and solidarity that have reached me. And those stay there, so worry, since no one can stop this anymore,” he concluded.
Filtering of other telephone numbers
The disclosure of Gálvez’s phone number occurs after it became known on Saturday, February 24, that the phone number of the official candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, was leaked online. of President López Obrador’s eldest son, José Ramón, as well as other officials of the presidential cabinet and figures related to the Mexican president.
Furthermore, it occurs in the midst of the controversy caused by the Mexican president, who on Thursday displayed a letter from the correspondent of The New York Times newspaper with his phone.
In the letter, the journalist asked him for his response about a United States investigation, now closed, of alleged bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas Cartel that López Obrador’s campaign received in 2018 and that also involved his children.
The dissemination of the journalist’s private information sparked an investigation by the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai), as well as a statement from The New York Times and criticism from organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which agreed on the risk that this represents in Mexico, one of the countries with the most murders of communicators.
However, López Obrador dismissed the Inai investigation and defended having disclosed the journalist’s data.
During AMLO’s six-year term (2018-2024), at least 69 journalists have been murdered, as recalled by the organization Propuesta Cívica after the controversy.
The country remains as the most dangerous in the peace zone to practice the journalistic profession, it was only surpassed by Palestine.
Keep reading:
–AMLO does not regret exposing the telephone number of the NYT journalist who “slandered” him
–There is no conclusive evidence that AMLO’s campaign received donations from drug traffickers, clarifies ProPublica journalist
–The United States closed the investigation into AMLO and alleged drug money for his campaign, source indicates