The front-runner in Mexico’s upcoming presidential election said Saturday she was being inundated with hate-filled calls and messages after her phone number was released online.
The privacy violation for Claudia Sheinbaum comes days after the incumbent, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, revealed the phone number of a journalist investigating his entourage’s alleged drug cartel links.
Sheinbaum, candidate for the ruling left-wing party, posted on X that she was being deluged with “calls and hate messages because someone published my cell phone number on social networks.”
“What they want to do is obvious, once again their attacks are as crude as they are harmless,” she said, adding that she would change her phone number.
The former Mexico City mayor faces Xochitl Galvez, from the opposition coalition, and Jorge Alvarez Maynez of the Citizens’ Movement party in the June poll.
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