Washington, Apr 19 (EFE).- The United States Department of Defense defended this Wednesday collaboration with Mexico and respect for its sovereignty, after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to protect the data of the Armed Forces of his country before the American “espionage”.
A Pentagon spokesperson told EFE that the US Department of Defense and the Mexican National Defense and Navy Secretariats “enjoy a collaborative partnership” focused on “traditional defense issues” and addressing challenges in this scope.
He stressed that this cooperation occurs “while both respect the sovereignty of the other and their respective foreign policy agendas.”
In this way, the US Defense portfolio reacted to the statements made on Tuesday by López Obrador, who announced that he will “protect” the information of the country’s Armed Forces by arguing that they are “objects of espionage” by the United States Pentagon.
“We are going to take care of the information from the Secretary of the Navy (Semar) and the Secretary of Defense (Sedena), because we are being the object of espionage by the Pentagon, and many information media in Mexico are leaking information that the DEA gives them ( United States Drug Enforcement Agency),” said the president.
In this sense, the Government of Mexico has anticipated that it will request a report from the US to clarify the alleged espionage against the Mexican Armed Forces.
Two days ago, López Obrador described the operation carried out by the DEA to infiltrate the Sinaloa cartel without authorization from the Mexican authorities as “abusive, arrogant interference”.
The President of Mexico also accused the United States of “interference” as a result of the leaks of Pentagon documents in a chat on the Discord application that show the friction between Sedena and Semar due to the increasing tasks that López Obrador assigns to the Forces. Armed.
