Leaders of Mexico and Brazil Rebuke U.S. for NSA Snooping -- Time
Embattled Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto got a welcome gift this week when Congress passed his education reform bill despite massive protests by teachers. But another present may have dropped into his lap, this one courtesy of Washington: It’s this week’s report that, according to yet more secret files leaked by intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spied on Peña Nieto’s e-mails during his presidential campaign last year.
Nothing generates more domestic and regional sympathy for a Latin American leader than being the target of a yanqui affront — especially yanqui espionage. Peña Nieto still has a loaded legislative agenda ahead, including a measure to allow private investment in Mexico’s oil industry for the first time in 75 years. Even if the new NSA revelations don’t help him push those reforms through, they certainly won’t hurt him. Mexicans, after all, are perhaps more sensitive than anyone to Washington’s interventionist history in its hemisphere. As Mexico City radio journalist Antonio Morales told the America TeVe show “A Mano Limpia” in Miami this week, “When we hear reports like this, it’s like having lemon juice poured into an open wound.”
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