The daily press conference of the Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador turned into a talk about their hypertension problems, the various pills you take every night and the confirmation that last January he was removed by ambulance from his ranch in the state of Chiapas for a heart operation. The information came to light after it became known that a hacker group obtained files from the Army that contain sensitive information, such as the president’s health.
“It’s true, there was a cyber attack. Through these modern mechanisms they extract files,” confirmed López Obrador before journalists before beginning to review his state of health, based on the revelations arising from the hacking of Army documentation.
was the journalist Carlos Loret de Molawho is often critical of the government, who revealed that the Guacamaya hacker group had obtained confidential information between 2016 and 2019, that is, before López Obrador took office in 2018.
“I understand that this same group has already done the same in other countries. I think that, in Colombia, in Chile, that’s why I think it’s something that is handled from abroad,” said the Mexican president and was unconcerned about the information. revealed. “I couldn’t sleep because I was thinking about it,” he quipped.
The stolen data includes reports on the health of the ruler that had not been disclosed before. In those files there is a record that López Obrador, 68, was transferred on January 2 from his ranch in Palenque, in the southern state of Chiapas, to be treated at a military hospital in Mexico City for a heart problem. .
“Everything that is said there is true and has been expressed. The ambulance that went to Palenque in early January was because there was a risk of a heart attack and they took me to the hospital and they recommended a catheterization,” López Obrador confirmed.
The Executive had only reported on January 22 that he underwent cardiac catheterization during a routine health exam, the local newspaper reported. the day and the AFP news agency. The president suffered a myocardial infarction in 2013.
The president added that he takes several pills every night and that he reviews his health every three or four months, although he said he feels fine and does not think his life is in danger. “I’m sick, I have several ailments”reiterated the dignitary and pointed out: “The most delicate thing is hypertension, and what the doctors don’t want is for me to die from my heart, from a heart attack”.
In a calm tone, the president announced that when his term ends he will change his lifestyle and added that the pressures that are experienced in the exercise of their position are many and that “sometimes you have to sleep with your boots on”.
