López Obrador minimizes the cyber attack on the Sedena archives and acknowledges that he suffered a risk of heart attack

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, during his morning press conference, on September 30, 2022. HENRY ROMERO (REUTERS)

Andrés Manuel López Obrador has downplayed the information emanating from the cyber attack on the archive of the Secretary of National Defense, through which serious health problems suffered by the Mexican president have been revealed, including heart problems, due to which he had to be rushed by helicopter to a hospital in the capital from his ranch in Chiapas at risk of a heart attack.

It was January 2 of this year.

The president has also acknowledged kidney and thyroid problems that force him to take cocktails of pills daily.

The hacking of the military archive of the Guacamaya group reported by the journalist Loret de Mola, has occurred "taking advantage of a change in the Army's information system," said López Obrador.

"They are professionals."

The president has indicated that he does not fear for his life.

The cyberattack has brought to light, according to previous information, the internal measures that were handled in October 2019, when the Culiacanazo took place, a confrontation between the military and drug traffickers in Sinaloa, which forced the Army to release the son of Chapo , Ovidio Guzmán, after being arrested, and retreating after hours of bullets and heavy artillery deployment that plunged the state capital, Culiacán, into a field of war.

The president always assumed that decision.

In addition, differences in criteria between the Navy and the Army have been known.

"Everything is true and in the public domain, if anything about the ambulance to Palenque", which was not known.

"Public life has to be increasingly public," said López Obrador.

The matter suggests an immediate relationship with the state secrets that affected many countries and that the activist Julian Assange revealed in the so-called Wikileaks papers.

Assange's relatives were invited on September 16 to participate with López Obrador in Mexico's national holidays.

In addition, in January, the president offered him asylum in Mexico.

Now, the North American country is involved in an issue similar to the one that Assange originated.

López Obrador has appeared alone before journalists this Friday for his daily conference and from the beginning he has played down the hackers' revelation about the files that probably most affect the country's security.

He has even done it jokingly, putting on an album by Chico Che entitled

, which refers to the effort of a man to enter the Army, but is prevented by his close relationship with alcohol and his many ailments.

Without abandoning his smile, the president has compared himself to the unfortunate protagonist of the song, “except for the alcohol thing”.

Diagnosed with angina, López Obrador was stabilized at the beginning of the year and transferred to a military hospital, where they recommended a catheterization, an operation that was interrupted when the president contracted covid.

The intervention was postponed for January 22 and supposedly took place without complications.

López Obrador assured that his state of health is accentuated by the working conditions to which he submits the condition of president, and the height of Mexico City, not recommended for hypertension.

All this, he said, will change when he completes his mandate, in 2024, and goes to live at sea level.

As president, he "sometimes has to sleep with his boots on."

"That's why sometimes I go up to the hills, to do cardio."

López Obrador also pointed out that this information is "politicking" and that "people reject it" for its "lack of respect, baseness and invasion of privacy."

The Guacamaya group has also operated by boycotting confidential files in other countries such as Colombia, Chile, Guatemala or El Salvador.

In Chile, the revelations forced the resignation of the chief of the Chilean General Staff, Guillermo Paiva, on September 24.

400,000 emails with information on the military and police forces of five countries in Central and South America came to light.

Macaw leaked them on September 19.

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