CHAPTER 11: “MÁTALO! MÁTALO!”

  1. Jon Lee Anderson, “Mexican Journalists Lose Another Colleague to the Drug War,”ew Yorker, May 20, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/mexicanjournalists-lose-another-colleague-to-the-drug-war; Ioan Grillo, “Inside the Brilliant Career and Tragic Death of Javier Valdez,” Esquire, September 19, 2018, https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22996658/javier-valdez-luis-guzman-elchapo-journalist/ (archive: perma.cc/7VRX-2SRM).

  2. Center for Preventive Action, “Criminal Violence in Mexico,” Global ConflictTracker, updated July 24, 2024, https://cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/criminal-violence-mexico (archive: perma.cc/ESS8-GMS5).

  3. Anderson, “Mexican Journalists Lose Another Colleague.”

  4. Leónidas Alfaro Bedolla, “¿QUIÉN MATÓ A JAVIER VALDEZ? Capítulo No. 9: Una Infamia Imperdonable,” Espejo, January 22, 2023, https://web.archive.orgweb/20230202214916/https://revistaespejo.com/reflexiones/quien-mato-a-javiervaldez-capitulo-no-9-una-infamia-imperdonable/.

  5. Catalina Gonella, “Journalists Protest, Mourn Killing of Mexican Reporter Javier Valdez Cárdenas,” NBC News, May 16, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/newslatino/journalists-protest-mourn-killing-mexican-reporter-javier-valdez-c-rdenasn760161 (archive: perma.cc/LK2U-3A8Z); Phil Davison, “Javier Valdez Cardenas, Obituary: Crusading Journalist Who Covered Mexican Drug Trade,” Independent, May 17, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/javier-valdez-cardenas-a7740786.html (archive: perma.cc/RM5D-EQXC).

  6. John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Siena Anstis, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, and Ron Deibert, Reckless VI: Mexican Journalists Investigating Cartels Targeted with NSO Spyware Following Assassination of Colleague, Research Report No. 116, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, November 27, 2018, https://citizenlab.ca/2018/11/mexican-journalists-investigating-cartels-targeted-nso-spyware-following-assassination-colleague/ (archive: perma.cc/QCH8-PFS2).

  7. John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Siena Anstis, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, and Ron Deibert, Reckless VII: Wife of Journalist Slain in Cartel- Linked Killing Targeted with NSO Group’s Spyware, Research Report No. 117, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, March 20, 2019, https://citizenlab.ca/2019/03/nso-spyware-slain-journalists-wife/ (archive: perma.cc/9APZ-TM2J).

  8. Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti, “The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon,” New York Times, January 28, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/202201/28/magazine/nso-group-israel-spyware.html.

  9. Edward Hunt, “The U.S. Has Spent Billions Trying to Fix Mexico’s Drug War. It’s Not Working,” Washington Post, March 15, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/15/us-has-spent-billions-trying-fix-mexicos-drug-war-itsnot-working/; Jess Ford, Mérida Initiative: The United States Has Provided Counternarcotics and Anticrime Support but Needs Better Performance Measures, Govern- ment Accountability Office, July 2010, https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-10-837.pdf (archive: perma.cc/CJ6U-HRLX); Clare Ribando Seelke and Ramon Miro, “Mexico’s Immigration Control Efforts,” Congressional Research Service, March 13, 2023, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10215.

  10. Cécile Schilis-Gallego, “Spying on Mexican Journalists: Investigating the Lucrative Market of Cyber-Surveillance,” Forbidden Stories, December 7, 2020, https://forbiddenstories.org/spying-on-mexican-journalists-investigating-thelucrative-market-of-cyber-surveillance/.

  11. US Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York, “Ex–Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna Convicted of Engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Taking Millions in Cash Bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel,” press release, February 21, 2023, https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ex-mexicansecretary-public-security-genaro-garcia-luna-convicted-engaging-continuing.

  12. Keegan Hamilton, “El Chapo’s Inside Man Was America’s Closest Partner in Mexico,” Vice, February 24, 2023, https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adxp9/genaro-garcia-luna-us-trial-drug-trafficking-conviction (archive: perma.cc/ZGE4-NLKG).

  13. US Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York, “Ex–Mexican Secretary of Public Security”; United Mexican States v. Genaro Garcia Luna et al., File # 135011567 (11th Cir. Sept. 21, 2021), https://insightcrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-09-21-UIF-Garcia-Luna-Florida.pdf (archive: perma.cc/EE2W-9YVC); Peniley Ramírez, Los millonarios de la guerra: el expediente inédito de García Luna y sus socios (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 2020).

  14. Zedryk Raziel and Elías Camhaji, “García Luna Sold Spy Technology to the Mexican Government during the Peña Nieto Administration,” El País, May 8, 2023, https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-08/garcia-luna-sold-spy-technology-to-the-mexican-government-during-the-pena-nieto-administration.html (archive: perma.cc/6EGL-7WJH); Maria Hinojosa and Peniley Ramírez, “Operation Miami,” USA v. García Luna, podcast, 43:16, December 30, 2022, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-4-operation-miami/id1657286545?i=1000591790925 (archive: perma.cc/F9WD-F3JV); Peniley Ramírez, “Denuncias contra exsecretario de seguridad de México muestran red de empresas fachada que movió más de 50 millones de dólares en 11 países,” Univision, May 18, 2020, https://www.univision.com/noticias/america-latina/denuncias-contra-exsec retario-de-seguridad-de-mexico-muestran-red-de-empresas-fachada-que-moviomas-de-50-millones-de-dolares-en-11-paises.

  15. Raziel and Camhaji, “García Luna Sold Spy Technology.”

  16. Tim Golden, “U.S. Investigators Uncovered Alleged Corruption by Mexico’s Former Security Minister Years before He Was Indicted,” ProPublica, January 22, 2023, https://www.propublica.org/article/genaro-garcia-luna-bribery-trial-dea-mexico-cartel (archive: perma.cc/7W7G-DGV2).

  17. Richard Silverstein, “Mexican Government Cancels NSO Group Cyber-Surveillance Contract, Launches Corruption Investigation,” Tikun Olam (blog), May 11, 2020, https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2020/05/11/mexican-government-cancels-nso-group-cyber-surveillance-contract/ (archive: perma.cc/X9BF-GE4W).

  18. Oded Yaron, “The Secret of NSO’s Success in Mexico,” Haaretz, November 30, 2020, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2020-11-30/ty-article/.highlightthe-secret-of-nsos-success-in-mexico/0000017f-e0f5-d568-ad7f-f3ff5cff0000 (archive: perma.cc/EE9U-QXQ6).

  19. Stephanie Kirchgaessner, “Dominican Investigative Journalist Targeted with NSO Spyware, Report Says,” Guardian, May 2, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/02/nuria-piera-spyware-target-nso-group.

  20. Bergman and Mazzetti, “Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon.”

  21. Richard Silverstein, “Former GOP National Finance Chair, Eliott Broidy, and Convicted Mexican Billionaire, Brokered First Foreign Sale of NSO Group Malware to Mexico,” Tikun Olam (blog), February 25, 2020, https://www.richardsilversteincom/2020 /02 /25 /former-gop-bundler-eliot-broidy-and-convicted-mexicanbillionaire-brokered-first-foreign-sale-of-nso-group-malware-to-mexico/.

  22. Silverstein, “Former GOP National Finance Chair.”

  23. Yaron, “Secret of NSO’s Success in Mexico.”

  24. Seth Hettena, “Scandal, Spyware, and 69 Pounds of Weed,” Daily Beast, August 3, 2021, https://www.thedailybeast.com/scandal-spyware-and-69-pounds-of-weed.

  25. Hettena, “Scandal, Spyware, and 69 Pounds of Weed.”

  26. Tomer Ganon and Hagar Ravet, “The Dodgy Framework and the Middlemen: How NSO Sold Its First Pegasus License,” CTech, February 24, 2020, https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3796112,00.html (archive: perma.cc/GL9P-GYT2).

  27. Ganon and Ravet, “Dodgy Framework and the Middlemen.”

  28. “Israeli Eitanium Emerges from Woodwork Financed by Sector Heavyweights,”ntelligence Online, November 18, 2021, https://www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance—interception/2021/11/18/israeli-eitanium-emerges-from-woodworkfinanced-by-sector-heavyweights,109705703-eve.

  29. Ganon and Ravet, “Dodgy Framework and the Middlemen.”

  30. Thomas Brewster, “A Multimillionaire Surveillance Dealer Steps Out of the Shadows . . . and His $9 Million WhatsApp Hacking Van,” Forbes, August 5, 2019, https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/05/a-multimillionairesurveillance-dealer-steps-out-of-the-shadows-and-his-9 -million-whatsapphacking-van/.

  31. Hettena, “Scandal, Spyware, and 69 Pounds of Weed.”

  32. Natalie Kitroeff and Ronen Bergman, “How Mexico Became the Biggest User of the World’s Most Notorious Spy Tool,” New York Times, April 18, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/world/americas/pegasus-spyware-mexico.html (archive: perma.cc/7CBX-QA84).

  33. Katitza Rodriguez and Gabriela Manuli, “Mexicans Need Transparency on Secret Surveillance Contracts,” Electronic Frontier Foundation, July 24, 2012, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/07/mexicans-need-transparency-secretsurveillance-contracts (archive: perma.cc/3GHD-3XS3); Yaron, “Secret of NSO’s Success in Mexico.”

  34. “Mexico: Army Used Pegasus to Spy on Human Rights Defender Raymundo Ramos,” Article 19, March 7, 2023, https://www.article19.org/resources/mexico-army-used-pegasus-to-spy-on-human-rights-defender-raymundo-ramos/ (archive: perma.cc/YHK5-NMUJ).

  35. Oded Yaron, “NSO Spyware Used by Private Firm against Reporter, Top Mexican Official,” Haaretz, November 11, 2021, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-newstech-news/2021-11-11/ty-article/.premium/nso-spyware-used-by-private-firmagainst-reporter-first-arrest-in-mexico/0000017f-f2c6-d487-abff-f3fe3b940000 (archive: perma.cc/6BJ9-WNZZ); Amitai Ziv, “Revealed: The Israelis Making Millions Selling Cyberweapons to Latin America,” Haaretz, December 8, 2020, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-newstech-news/2020-12-08/ty-article/.highlight/revealed-the-israelis-selling-cyber weapons-to-latin-america/0000017f-e130-d9aa-afff-f9784e320000.

  36. Ganon and Ravet, “Dodgy Framework and the Middlemen.”

  37. Tomer Ganon and Hagar Ravet, “The Rayzone Group’s Secret Cyber Intelligence Activities Revealed,” CTech, December 29, 2020, https://www.calcalistech.comctech/articles/0,7340,L-3884553,00.html.

  38. Omer Kabir, “Report Reveals Which Countries Are Using Circles Technologies’ Invasive Spyware,” CTech, December 1, 2020, https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3878410,00.html (archive: perma.cc/87LV-6RE2).

  39. Rebecca Ballhaus and Julie Bykowicz, “Elliott Broidy Quits RNC Post after Report on Payment to Ex-Model,” Wall Street Journal, April 13, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/elliott-broidy-quits-rnc-post-after-report-on-payment-to-ex-model1523645801; Kenneth P. Vogel, “Elliott Broidy Pleads Guilty in Foreign LobbyingCase,” New York Times, October 20, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20us/politics/elliott-broidy-foreign-lobbying.html; Ryan Grim and Alex Emmons, “Trump Fundraiser Offered Russian Gas Company Plan to Get Sanctions Lifted for 26 Million,” Intercept, April 20, 2018, https://theintercept.com/2018/04/20/elliott-broidy-trump-russia-sanctions/ (archive: perma.cc/EH4C-X4RN).

  40. David D. Kirkpatrick, “A Top Trump Fund-Raiser Says Qatar Hacked His Email,” New York Times, March 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/worldmiddleeast/qatar-trump-hack-email.html.

  41. Ziv, “Revealed: The Israelis Making Millions.”

  42. Ziv, “Revealed: The Israelis Making Millions.”

  43. Yaron, “NSO Spyware Used by Private Firm”; “Mexico,” Database of Israeli Mili- tary and Security Export, accessed April 22, 2024, https://www.dimse.info/mexico/ (archive: perma.cc/FP3Y-L9KA); “Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional de México,” Distributed Denial of Secrets, January 23, 2024, https://ddosecrets.com/article/secretaria-de-la-defensa-nacionalde-mexico.

  44. Arturo Angel, “Translated from Spanish: Videgaray, Cienfuegos and Duarte, behind Payments to Pegasus for Espionage,” Ana Noticias, July 22, 2021, https://ananoticias.com/2021/07/22/translated-from-spanish-videgaray-cienfuegos-and-duartebehind-payments-to-pegasus-for-espionage/.

  45. Yaron, “Secret of NSO’s Success in Mexico.”

  46. Suhail Gharaibeh, “Israel, Cybersurveillance, and the Case of the Ayotzinapa 43,” NACLA, September 14, 2022, https://nacla.org/israel-cybersurveillance-mexico-case-ayotzinapa-43 (archive: perma.cc/X4TS-VF9S).

  47. “Hacking Team,” WikiLeaks, July 8, 2015, https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/ (archive: perma.cc/VE8F-FJE4).

  48. Elizabeth Gonzalez, “Explainer: Hacking Team’s Reach in the Americas,” ASCOA, July 30, 2015, https://www.as-coa.org/articles/explainer-hacking-teams-reach-americas (archive: perma.cc/L432-7EFV).

  49. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, “Hacking Team’s ‘Illegal’ Latin American Empire,”ice, April 18, 2016, https://www.vice.com/en/article/gv5v8q/hacking-team-illegal-latin-american-empire (archive: perma.cc/G39Y-G7E3).

  50. Eric Banoun, “MEXICO PGR URGENT,” email, November 29, 2014, https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/5986 (archive: perma.cc/J4XC-RM98), in “Hacking Team,” Wiki- Leaks, July 8, 2015.

  51. “Mexico: $300 Million in Spyware Spending Included Kickbacks,” Associated Press, July 21, 2021, https://apnews.com/article/technology-middle-east-mexico-spyware-ee103912620f5d7267f3369a95e5fe2d (archive: perma.cc/J8ZR-CZ8K).

  52. Raúl Olmos, “Subordinado de Murillo Karam, ligado a grupo empresarial que vendió Pegasus a la PGR,” Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad, February 20, 2017, https://contralacorrupcion.mx/pegasus-pgr/.

  53. Lilach Baumer, “Lawsuit Asks to Restrict Sales of Israeli Spyware,” CTech, September 2, 2018, https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3745470,00.html (archive: perma.cc/FK7G-D2FJ).

  54. Amitai Ziv, “Raising Concerns over Press Freedom, Israel’s NSO Report- edly Sold Ghana Surveillance Tech,” Haaretz, July 3, 2019, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-07-03/ty-article/.premium/raising-concerns-over-press-freedom-israels-nso-reportedly-sold-ghana-spyware/0000017f-e94b-df5f-a17ffbdfa9510000; Rolando Rodríguez B., “Abren sumario en caso Hacking Team,”a Prensa, August 6, 2015, https://www.prensa.com/locales/Espiar-obsesion-Martinelli_0_4271572998.html (archive: perma.cc/P2CW-YA27); “Rwandan Authorities Chose Thousands of Activists, Journalists and Politicians to Target with NSO Spyware,” Amnesty Inter- national, July 19, 2021, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2021/07/rwandan-authorities-chose-thousands-of-activists-journalists-and-politicians-to-target-with-nso-spyware/ (archive: perma.cc/9RAF-K2YB); Ellen Ioanes, “Israeli Spyware Was Used against US Diplomats in Uganda,” Vox, December 4, 2021, https://www.vox.com/2021/12/4/22817236/nso-group-israeli-spyware-pegasus-hack-us-diplomats-uganda (archive: perma.cc/5YNT-RDGB); John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Irene Poetranto, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Sutawan Chanprasert, and Ron Deibert, GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement, Research Report No. 157, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, July 17, 2022, https://citizenlab.ca/2022/07/geckospy-pegasus-spyware-used-against-thailands-pro-democracy-movement/ (archive: perma.cc/Q8XX-P56P); Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti, “Israeli Companies Aided Saudi Spying despite Khashoggi Killing,” New York Times, July 17, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/world/middleeastisrael-saudi-khashoggi-hacking-nso.html; Chaim Levinson, “With Israel’s Encouragement, NSO Sold Spyware to UAE and Other Gulf States,” Haaretz, August 25, 2020, https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2020-08-25/ty-article/.premium/with-israels-encouragement-nso-sold-spyware-to-uae-and-other-gulf-states/0000017f-dbf3-d856-a37f-fff3a4ba0000 (archive: perma.cc/WMZ8-G3F4).

  55. Dolia Estevez, “Mexico’s Proposed Tax on Soda, Junk Food Opposed by Billionaire Beverage and Food Barons,” Forbes, October 28, 2013, https://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2013/10/28/mexicos-proposed-tax-on-soda-junk-food-opposed-by-billionaire-beverage-and-food-barons/ (archive: perma.cc/VHE2-LW9J).

  56. Gharaibeh, “Israel, Cybersurveillance, and the Case.”

  57. Gharaibeh, “Israel, Cybersurveillance, and the Case.”

  58. Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts, “GIEI Ayotzinapa Report Summary,” National Security Archive, October 12, 2015, https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/27608-1-giei-ayotzinapa-report-summary.

  59. Gharaibeh, “Israel, Cybersurveillance, and the Case.”

  60. Juan Omar Fierro, “Niega PGR fragmentación de indagatoria del caso Iguala,”l Universal, February 21, 2016, https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/seguridad/2016/02/21/niega-pgr-fragmentacion-de-indagatoria-del-caso-iguala/ (archive: perma.cc/YYS3-8XPP).

  61. John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, and Ron Deibert, Reckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO Spyware, Research Report No. 93, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, June 19, 2017, https://citizenlab.ca/2017/06/reckless-exploit-mexico-nso/ (archive: perma.cc/M9VM-M8BN).

  62. Azam Ahmed, “Mexico Spyware Inquiry Bogs Down. Skeptics Aren’t Surprised,”ew York Times, February 20, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/worldamericas/mexico-spyware-investigation.html.

  63. Ronen Bergman and Oscar Lopez, “Former Official Wanted by Mexico Takes Refuge in Israel,” New York Times, July 15, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0715/world/middleeast/israel-mexico-zeron-extradition.html.

  64. Tomer Ganon, “The Wanted Mexican That Is Hiding Out at the Luxury Home of the Rayzone Group Entrepreneur,” CTech, May 18, 2022, https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/u1ahyselk.

  65. NMás, “Conferencia matutina AMLO—Miércoles 6 de Noviembre 2019,” November 6, 2019, video, 1:52:00, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjzRY-nQT2w (archive: perma.cc/HT4L-7MJQ).

  66. Nina Lakhani, “Fifty People Linked to Mexico’s President among Potential Targets of NSO Clients,” Guardian, July 19, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/fifty-people-close-mexico-president-amlo-among-potential-targets-nso-clients (archive: perma.cc/MXB9-4586).

  67. Centro de Produccion CEPROPIE, “Conferencia de prensa matutina del martes 20 de julio, 2021,” July 20, 2021, video, 2:03:55, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= (archive: perma.cc/7Q8R-TKTE) HOrjI2dMl4U.

  68. Suzanne Smalley, “Pegasus Spyware Trial Implicating Former President Kicks Off in Mexico,” Record, December 5, 2023, https://therecord.media/mexico-pegasus-spyware-trial-kicks-off (archive: perma.cc/N3FZ-RMB6); Mary Beth Sheridan,“Mexico Makes First Arrest in Pegasus Spying Scandal,” Washington Post, November 9, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/09/mexico-pegasus-nso/.

  69. Associated Press, “Israeli Spyware Firm Distances Itself from Mexico Suspect,”netnews, November 9, 2021, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sytka1fwy (archive: perma.cc/LPR3-VQGN).

  70. “Mexico: Investigations into the Use of Pegasus Spyware Must Continue,” Article 19, January 15, 2024, https://www.article19.org/resources/mexico-investigations-into-the-use-of-pegasus-spyware-must-continue/ (archive: perma.cc/2NVB-X25R).

  71. “Mexico: Investigations into the Use of Pegasus.”

  72. Daina Beth Solomon, “Mexican Opposition Lawmaker Says He Was Target of Pegasus Spyware,” Reuters, October 18, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/worldamericas/mexican-opposition-lawmaker-says-he-was-target-pegasus-spyware2022-10-18/.

  73. “CPJ Welcomes 2nd Conviction in Case of Slain Mexican Journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas,” Committee to Protect Journalists, June 9, 2021, https://cpj.org/2021/06/cpj-welcomes-2nd-conviction-in-case-of-slain-mexican-journalist-javier-valdez-cardenas/ (archive: perma.cc/EY4W-EJTU).

  74. Keegan Hamilton, “Who Ordered the Murder of a Legendary Mexican Journalist? El Chapo’s Trial Only Adds to the Mystery,” Vice, January 24, 2019, https://www.vice.com/en/article/43zd3g/el-chapos-former-right-hand-man-says-drug-lords-sons-were-behind-killing-of-legendary-journalist (archive: perma.cc/KM6H-R6AA).

  75. Keegan Hamilton, “Mexico Wants the US to Hand Over El Chapo’s Godson for Killing of Legendary Journalist,” Vice, September 19, 2022, https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax4q9/damaso-lopez-journalist-killing-extradition.

  76. Ahmed, “Mexico Spyware Inquiry Bogs Down”; Luis Fernando García, “Spyware in Mexico: An Interview with Luis Fernando García of R3D Mexico,” interviewed by Deji Bryce Olukotun, Access Now, June 22, 2017, https://www.accessnow.orgspyware-mexico-interview-luis-fernando-garcia-r3d-mexico/.

  77. “Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional de México,” Distributed Denial of Secrets, January 23, 2024, https://ddosecrets.com/article/secretaria-de-la-defensa-nacionalde-mexico.

  78. Dina Temple-Raston and Will Jarvis, “Internal Documents Show Mexican Army Used Spyware against Civilians, Set Up Secret Military Intelligence Unit,” Record, March 7, 2023, https://therecord.media/mexican-army-spyware (archive: perma.cc/7GJH-DH7F).

  79. Natalie Kitroeff and Ronen Bergman, “Spying by Mexico’s Armed Forces Brings Fears of a ‘Military State,’” New York Times, March 7, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/world/americas/mexico-military-surveillance.html.

  80. “Mexican President Slams Report Military Spied on Activist as ‘Made Up,’” Reuters, March 10, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-president-slamsreport-military-spied-activist-made-up-2023-03-10/.

  81. Mary Beth Sheridan, “Pegasus Spyware Reaches into Mexican President’s Inner Circle,” Washington Post, May 24, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world2023/05/24/pegasus-spyware-ayotzinapa-mexico/.