MEXICANS do not trust their government. Just 29% have some confidence in the institution, according to Latinobarómetro, a polling firm. A report in the New York Times on June 19th, widely broadcast by the Mexican media, must have reduced that number. It said that software sold to the government to spy on suspected criminals had turned up on the mobile phones of journalists and human-rights campaigners who criticise the government perfectly legally.
Investigations by the Times, Citizen Lab (a research centre in Toronto) and three NGOs named 15 people, most of them critics of the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose phones were found to have the spyware. They include Carmen Aristegui, a journalist who helped uncover a controversial purchase of a house by Mr Peña’s wife from a government contractor. Another target was employees of Centro Prodh, a human-rights group that represents the families of 43 students who...Continue reading
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