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| Source |  Recorded Future |
|---|---|
| Identifiant | 8316340 |
| Date de publication | 2023-03-07 14:30:00 (vue: 2023-03-07 16:06:55) |
| Titre | Internal documents show Mexican army used spyware against civilians, set up secret military intelligence unit |
| Texte |
_Two digital rights groups, Mexico's R3D and the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, have just released an update to their “[Ejército Espía](https://ejercitoespia.r3d.mx/)” (“Spying Government”) report from late last year. In October 2022, they revealed that the Mexican army bought spyware and deployed it against at least two Mexican journalists and a human rights advocate between 2019 and 2021. While they had compelling circumstantial evidence, there was no smoking gun. The newly-released internal classified documents appear to prove it._
_Luis Fernando Garcia, a lawyer and executive director of R3D, told Click Here in an interview that a roster of freedom of information requests and internal Ministry of Defense documents – released as part of last year's massive hack-and-leak operation by the hacktivist group Guacamaya – connect officials at the highest levels of the Mexican army to the purchase of Pegasus spyware. R3D found a 2019 acceptance letter that links the military to a company with the exclusive right to sell licenses for the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in Mexico._
_NSO Group created Pegasus in 2011 and it has been linked to everything from the capture of the drug lord El Chapo to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Pegasus' super power is its ability to infect smartphones without a user knowing - the phone becomes a spy in their pocket, capturing their location, their communications, and information on their friends._
_Among the new revelations are documents from the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense , or SEDENA, that discuss a previously unknown military intelligence agency in charge of the nation's surveillance programs. The leaked files show the agency, referred to as CMI or the Military Intelligence Center, spied on a human rights advocate named Raymundo Ramos who has been investigating a suspected extrajudicial killing by the Army that occurred in July 2020 in a border town called Nuevo Laredo._
_The interview has been edited for space and clarity. A fuller version of the story can be heard on the [Click Here](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/click-here/id1225077306) podcast._
**CLICK HERE: For people who don't know, can you explain the mission of R3D (The Digital Rights Defense Network)?**
**LUIS FERNANDO GARCIA:** The Digital Rights Defense Network is a NGO that works on issues related to human rights and technology. Since the beginning we've been working to uncover and to investigate and pushback against the surveillance apparatus in Mexico.
**CH: You started your latest investigation into government surveillance in collaboration with the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab in early 2022. What did the initial investigation [[published last October](https://ejercitoespia.r3d.mx/)] reveal?**
**LG:** We started checking phones of human rights defenders, journalists, trying to see if we could find forensic evidence of Pegasus in Mexico. We started to document cases of people who were infected in 2019, 2020, and 2021, which means [it was deployed] during the current government, not the previous government.
A week or maybe less from our publication date, something really important happened. The army's email system was hacked and an activist group called Guacamaya was offering access to those emails to media organizations and to human rights organizations. And this gave us like the missing key that we needed to actually point the finger at the army and say we found these Pegasus cases [and connected them to the military].
**CH: Can you talk about some of the specific things you discovered in the Guacamaya documents?**
**LG:** We were able to find a kind of acceptance letter from the army, directed to the secretary, which is the head of the army - the General Secretary of National Defense in Mexico. And here it talks about a contract with Comercializadora Antsua |
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