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Pardinas: Mexico Needs an International Commission to Explore Espionage Claims

By Benjamin Russell

Juan E. Pardinas, director of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, was a target of a hi-tech spying operation that came to light this week.

Mexico is experiencing a dramatic crisis in leadership and should call an international commission to investigate reports that spyware bought by federal agencies to uncover criminal activity was instead turned on critics like lawyers, journalists and anti-corruption activists, said Juan E. Pardinas, one of Mexico’s leading transparency advocates and one of the espionage targets.

Pardinas spoke to AQ moments after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto minimized the claims made in the...

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