Election-Manipulating Putin May Have Eye on Mexico’s 2018 Presidency Alejandro Azcarate - Yucatan Times | |
go to original October 31, 2017 |
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (Getty)
In the last twelve months, the world we live in has seen radical changes of political, economic, social, ideological and climatic nature.
Donald Trump is probably the most prominent personage playing a key role in these changes, but there is a leader with a lower profile who has been in charge of influencing many other countries and is emerging as a historical character who will impact a whole era with his “unorthodox” methods of exercising his political power on a global scale.
His name, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, a Russian statesman who was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000, President from 2000 to 2008, head of government from 2008 to 2012, and since May 7, 2012 has served as the President of Russia.
How could Russia intervene in the Mexican elections?
Jorge Fernández Menéndez, an Argentinian naturalized Mexican journalist and specialist in subversive movements who has written 5 books on Mexican politics, says that there is a big possibility of Russia interfering in the Mexican 2018 elections: “As they already did in Catalonia, the United States, France and Austria among other countries. They tried to contaminate, without success, the elections in France and Germany, but they supported the referendum on Catalonia, because this movement destabilizes the European Union.”
“Mexico’s geographical proximity to the United States could be an incentive for Russians to try to hack into our electoral systems,” Fernández declared in an interview for Razon.com.mx.
At the moment, the mechanism actually being used by the Russians is pure propaganda. An essential element of the Russian propaganda network abroad is the Russian TV channel, Russia Today (Founded by Mikhail Lesin, who was the Zar of telecommunications under Putin’s administration), which can be seen in Mexico through Izzy on channel 710, whose news broadcast coverage visibly supports presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
According to argumentopolitico.com, in an interview with a Spanish magazine in the year 2016, when questioned about his opinion on NAFTA, Putin diplomatically mentioned that he respected Enrique Peña Nieto, but that he personally thought that Andrés Manuel López Obrador could play a key role as the next president of Mexico.
So, in the months to come, a piece of advice is do not click on links coming from accounts that are not familiar, or give out any passwords or other personal information, you never know who is on the other side of that fiber optics mouse-trap.
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