2024-02-26 02:04:27
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denounced this Sunday as “censorship” YouTube’s decision to withdraw the February 22 press conference in which the president publicly released the telephone number of the correspondent of The New York Times newspaper in Mexico, Natalie Kitroeff, after publishing an investigation into possible links between officials close to the president and his children with organized crime.
This was indicated in a message on the social network X, after the controversy generated in the country by his subsequent defense of the relevance of the disclosure of the journalist’s data.
“Due to censorship, YouTube downloaded the video of the press conference on Thursday, February 22, because, according to them, ‘it violates community standards.’ It is an arrogant and authoritarian attitude. “They are in full decline,” said López Obrador.
The controversy arose on Thursday, when the Mexican president exhibited a letter from Kitroeff with his phone and a questionnaire about a United States investigation, now closed, of alleged bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas Cartel that the López campaign received. Obrador in 2018 and that also involved his children.
The president stressed that he had come to power “not only without support, but against the means of manipulation of the oligarchy.”
“Neither the power mafia nor the journalism underworld will be able to silence us,” López Obrador added.
The platform, for its part, justified the removal of the video this Saturday for violating its policy on “harassment.”
The dissemination of the journalist’s private information sparked an investigation by the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai), in addition to a statement from The New York Times and criticism from organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which agreed on the risk that this represents in Mexico, one of the countries with the most murders of communicators.
The controversy has not stopped growing in Mexico to the point that “a telephone war” has broken out, as the local press has defined it.
In the last few hours, the private phone numbers of the two main Mexican presidential candidates, the opposition Xóchitl Gálvez, and the official, Claudia Sheinbaum, have been leaked on networks; as well as those of the president’s eldest son, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, José Ramón López Beltránin addition to other officials of the presidential cabinet and figures related to the Mexican president.
The president described the leak of his son’s number on social media as “very shameful,” while his first-born son indicated that it was revenge after his father broadcast the number of the New York Times correspondent at the morning conference.
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