The US Has Been Helping Mexico Spy on Its Citizens for Decades Peter Watt - Quartz
go to original September 12, 2013

Spying on the hand that feeds us. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Mexico is the latest country to be caught up in the NSA leaks story. It seems the agency had access to president Enrique Peña Nieto’s email account while he was running for office last year. The disclosure offers us a remarkable, if unsurprising, window into how the US government treats its close political allies.

Mexico’s president reacted with contrived indignation and an acceptance of Barack Obama’s assurance that there will be an investigation into the matter. Peña Nieto’s tepid response to the hacking of his emails by the NSA is of little wonder; a perfunctory duty of high-level Mexican politicians is to publicly denounce the infractions of US imperialism while doing nothing concrete to oppose it, lest it upset the close political alliance with Washington.

The Mexico/US partnership goes far beyond political and economic cooperation, however. Spying on the Mexican citizenry has been mutually consensual since World War II.

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