After the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, declared that the Secretary of the Defense Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Barrera Sepúlveda, addressed the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Crescencio Sandoval, “in other disrespectful terms”, when summoning him to meet with federal legislators to discuss the matter of the hacking of Army files, the content of the letter was made public.

The text of the letter is as follows:

Legislative Palace of San Lazaro to October 11,

General Luis Crescencio Sandoval González
SECRETARY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
GIFT

May this serve to greet you, and I take this opportunity to wish you the best of success in the activities of the Secretary of National Defense for the benefit of our country.

The members of this Commission are grateful that you have responded in a timely manner to our request to have a rapprochement with you, however, and personally, I cannot pass up the opportunity to tell you with all due respect that the main idea of ​​this Work Meeting was to generate an open and accountability exercise with citizens, and not a closed meeting at SEDENA facilities.

Therefore, I cannot fail to point out that both a server and those of us who make up the Orange Bench do not agree with the current format of said Meeting. Since we consider that given the seriousness of the unfortunate events caused by the Hacking of the SEDENA servers, and the risk that this implies, the decision could have been made to carry out an open and transparent exercise at the headquarters of the Honorable Chamber of Deputies.

In addition, we believe that this would be an excellent opportunity to open a dialogue between the Secretary of National Defense and the Congress of the Union through the National Defense Commission, as well as to take advantage of the situation to talk about the concerns and challenges that arise. come in the near future in cybersecurity, in addition to listening to their explanations and actions to improve after the incident in question.

I do not omit to mention that accepting you to attend the meeting on October 18 without hesitation, since I believe that we cannot let more time go by to deal with these issues of national relevance and that no matter where we hold this meeting, we have to work to achieve solutions to these problems.

Without further ado, I say goodbye and stay tuned.

Rubrica, secretary of the Defense Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Barrera Sepúlveda, stamp of the commission and date of October 11, 2022.

During a meeting with deputies of the Congress of Mexico City held on Monday, where he went to convince legislators to approve the extension of the time that the armed forces carry out security tasks in the National Guard, the secretary of Governorate indicated that the Commission for the Defense of the Chamber of Deputies, it is not the body before which an official has to report, in this case the head of the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena).

Meanwhile, the deputy Sergio Barrera Sepúlveda, rejected that the letter was disrespectful and pointed out that it is necessary for the Sedena to account for what happened.

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