In 2010, the National Security Agency (NSA) managed to access an email with a domain from the Mexican government. This effectively gave them access to the then president's messages Felipe Calderon, but also to other high-ranking officials of the then government. These monitorings, which continued for a number of years, provided a great deal of information about politicians and politics system of the country, according to a publication of the German magazine Der Spiegel.
The program by name "FlatliquidIs his latest revelation Edward Snowden.
The Der Spiegel but in addition to this revelation, he also presented other details about the NSA's action in Latin America. Article states:
For two weeks in the early summer of 2012, the NSA in charge of monitoring the Mexican government analyzed the data they obtained from the mobile phone of Peña grandson and "nine more of his close associates." Analysts used software to link this data into one network, which displayed them in a graphic that looks like a swarm of bees. The software then filters Peña Nieto's most relevant contacts and places them in a database called “DishFire. "
According to internal documents, the agency had 85.489 text messages passed through the phones of Pe τηa Nieto and some of his associates. The technology "could find a needle in a haystack," analysts said.
The NSA's interest in Latin America extends far beyond Mexico. Greenwald revealed in September that the agency had used the software to examine communications between Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her assistants. Rousseff recently canceled a trip to Washington in protest at revelations of secret service activities and, by extension, US policy.
