Mexico’s president on Friday defended his decision to disclose a reporter’s telephone number, saying a law that prohibits officials from releasing personal information doesn’t apply to him.

Press freedom groups said the president’s decision to make public the phone number of a New York Times reporter Thursday was an attempt to punish critical reporting, and exposed the reporter to potential danger.

Mexico’s law on Protection of Personal Data states “the government will guarantee individuals’ privacy” and sets out punishments for officials and others for “improperly using, taking, publishing, hiding, altering or destroying, fully or partially, personal data.”

  • Lemminary
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    -289 months ago

    I would know if he was an “authoritarian demagogue”. I live here.

    • @bostonbananarama@lemmy.world
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      699 months ago

      I have no opinion on the Mexican president, but I live in the States and there’s about 70m people I could ask if Trump is an authoritarian or fascist and they’d say no. So simply living somewhere may not be the best barometer.

      • Lemminary
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        9 months ago

        If you have any sources explaining how he has abused power to gain any sort of political advantage, please link it. Because all I see are clueless foreigners projecting their politics onto us based on a single article.

        • @Zirconium@lemmy.world
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          189 months ago

          “President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that “the political and moral authority of the president of Mexico is above that law,” adding that “no law can be above the sublime principle of liberty.””

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            And he’s just stating his opinion. I’m asking how he has abused that power in office for anything other than his personal rift with the media, which is largely personal.

            Edit: Still nothing? Not a single respectable answer has reached my inbox? But that hasn’t stopped anyone from downvoting even if it’s looking like a salt measure but not for me. lol Yeah, turns out that the article is a little biased and some may say a tad propagandist and y’all fell for it.

            • @i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
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              109 months ago

              Doesn’t that make it worse? If he abuses power for the good of the country, at least he has some principals. Abusing power to hurt people he’s personally unhappy with is just childish.

              • @Zirconium@lemmy.world
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                79 months ago

                You make a good point. He did not just say “I am above the law” (paraphrased). He used his power to directly hurt someone and doesn’t want to take responsibility

    • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      289 months ago

      Just because you live somewhere, doesn’t mean you know AMLO any better than the next anonymous user. There are plenty of people who live in countries and aren’t even aware of who their politicians or even PM or President is.

      • Lemminary
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        Why would something like that go unnoticed in my local political context in a country that practically lives online? And especially given that AMLO dominates the news? That’s not the popular complaint. It’s ridiculous.

        Whatever you’re implying about my country sounds a bit outdated if not uninformed. I know you may think we’re a third-world country or whatever you want to call it but we’re not that far behind you.

    • young_broccoli
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      Yó también, amig@. De toda la puta vida.
      La centralización de agencias gubernamentales, los milicos haciéndola de policía, sus ataques a instituciones diseñadas para fiscalizar el gobierno (INE e INT), La “aprobación” de proyectos como el chaifa y el tren maya por orden presidencial, brincándose las leyes que supuestamente regulan este tipo de proyectos son ejemplos de su autoritarismo, específicamente, el autoritarismo de morena que es el nuevo pri.

      En cuanto a demagogo; Que no has visto las mañaneras?

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        149 months ago

        Translation per Google Translate…

        Me too, friend. For all my fucking life. The centralization of government agencies, the soldiers acting as police, their attacks on institutions designed to supervise the government (INE and INT), The “approval” of projects such as the chaifa and the Mayan train by presidential order, bypassing the laws that supposedly regulate These types of projects are examples of his authoritarianism, specifically, the morena authoritarianism that is the new PRI.

        As for demagogue; Haven’t you seen the mornings?