Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused The Pentagon of spying on his government, according to a Washington Post report based on leaked US intelligence documents.
What happened: Lopez Obrador, on Tuesday, criticism of the United States., vowed to limit information from the country’s armed forces to protect national security, Reuters reported.
“We will now protect Navy and Department of Defense information because we are a target of Pentagon espionage,” Lopez Obrador said at a news conference.
Lopez Obrador specifically directed his criticism at the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), accusing it of “informing” Mexican media organizations in order to “politically weaken us”.
This went down days after a news report on a leaked assessment by the US military had noted obvious tensions between the Mexican Navy and the Army. According to the report, the secretary of the Mexican Navy ordered officials to limit their cooperation with the Mexican army amid frustration at the possibility that the army would take control of the country’s airspace.
The leak is part of a larger collection of top-secret US intelligence documents allegedly posted online in a Discord chat by a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
The Pentagon said the US Department of Defense has a “strong cooperative defense partnership” with the Mexican Army and Navy and that the units address common challenges “while respecting each other’s sovereignty and respective foreign policy agendas.”
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