During her morning press conference on Tuesday, Claudia Sheinbaum addressed the controversy surrounding leaked audios in which Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar allegedly shared security information.

Sheinbaum clarified that there is no crime warranting an investigation, as the audio does not compromise national security. “There is nothing heard that compromises the national security or the security of the state of Baja California. We do not believe there is a crime to pursue because this communication does not contain anything that endangers security,” she said when asked if the audio was related to Marina del Pilar’s visa situation.

The Mexico City mayor also noted that the governor has already provided an explanation and that it remains unclear who she was speaking with during the call. “She has already given her explanation. We don’t even really know who she was talking to. What we have is a phone call made public by a journalist. We don’t even know exactly who she was speaking with, and she has already shared her information,” Sheinbaum added.

She emphasized that the leaked audios do not put Baja California’s security at risk. “It’s information she is discussing with a person; we don’t know who that person is, not even if it’s a U.S. authority or not.”

Supporting this view, Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, stated that the audios do not suggest any confidential information was leaked. He explained that state security meetings focus on daily crime incidence and do not involve sensitive information that could threaten national security.

“In state security meetings, not only state and federal authorities participate. They identify daily crime rates, but there is no information with a level of sensitivity that worries us about being shared with any authority, if that was the case, because it is still unknown which authority the person was speaking to,” García Harfuch said.

This statement from Sheinbaum and García Harfuch on Tuesday comes amid ongoing scrutiny of transparency and security protocols in Mexican states, highlighting the delicate balance between public accountability and safeguarding sensitive information.