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.<\/p>\n
Sheinbaum clarified that there is no crime warranting an investigation, as the audio does not compromise national security. \u201cThere 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,\u201d she said when asked if the audio was related to Marina del Pilar\u2019s visa situation.<\/p>\n
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. \u201cShe has already given her explanation. We don\u2019t even really know who she was talking to. What we have is a phone call made public by a journalist. We don\u2019t even know exactly who she was speaking with, and she has already shared her information,\u201d Sheinbaum added.<\/p>\n
She emphasized that the leaked audios do not put Baja California\u2019s security at risk. \u201cIt\u2019s information she is discussing with a person; we don\u2019t know who that person is, not even if it\u2019s a U.S. authority or not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Supporting this view, Omar Garc\u00eda 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 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,\u201d Garc\u00eda Harfuch said.<\/p>\n
This statement from Sheinbaum and Garc\u00eda 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.<\/p>\n