This is an important, profound and must-read @nytimes piece by @ronenbergman and @MarkMazzettiNYT about the misuse of the Pegasus software by a series of governments around the globe, including #Mexico:👇🏽
nytimes.com/2022/01/28/mag….
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nytimes.com/2022/01/28/mag….
However, some proper context is required, ...1/8
..at least in regards to Mexican foreign policy during the 2007-2012 period. During that time there never was a quid pro quo between #Mexico acquiring Pegasus to confront transnational criminal organizations and how Mexico voted at the UN -and at UN bodies- regarding ...2/8
..resolutions on Israel. Mexican foreign policy at that time was determined -albeit with important internal resistance from Foreign Ministry colleagues- to jettison a cookie-cutter approach that had prevailed in the Mexican Foreign Ministry for years on end when it came ..3/8
..to voting at the UN on anything related to Israel. An argument was indeed made by some of us in foreign policymaking that #Mexico needed to review each resolution and vote on a case-by-case basis and not under the one-standard-fits-all dogmas, patterns and diplomatic ...4/8
..paradigm of the past. And an explicit decision was made as part of a modern and strategic relationship with the US, and which I directly pursued as ambassador in Washington during those years, to reduce points of friction with Jewish members of Congress in Washington and ..5/8
..with Jewish American organizations, many of which had become allies in #Mexico’s pursuit of comprehensive #immigration reform, the protection of rights for undocumented workers, the pushback against bigotry and xenophobia in the US, an enlightened and forward-looking ...6/8
..#immigration policy, and the empowerment of Mexican American community-based organizations and young, upcoming leaders -many of them #Dreamers- in those Diaspora communities around the country. What may have indeed occurred during the next Mexican administration starting ..7/8
..in 2013, in terms of foreign policy quid pro quos (the domestic political -and illicit- misuse and abuse of Pegasus by the Peña Nieto gov is in no doubt whatsoever) is altogether another matter and one which I cannot speak to because I do not possess first-hand knowledge. 8/8
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