Mexico Phone Tap Scandal Breaks Out Anew (Leftist Politicians Tapped)

[Khephra]

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican politicians are finding it tough to hold a private conversation. Recordings of telephone calls between leftist political figures were played on Mexican television stations Tuesday night and Wednesday, yet another chapter in a history of clandestine video and audiotapes that have repeatedly rocked Mexican politics.

"It's a call for all who speak on the telephone to use a code, a key, to speak in ciphers because the government's apparatus of espionage is at work," Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a news conference Wednesday.

The mayor did not express surprise. Dozens of Mexican politicians -- even President Vicente Fox -- have had supposedly private conversations broadcast on radio and television in recent years -- causing scandals but few arrests.

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Trejo said the exposures of private conversations "have become so common, so frequent a political resource" that politicians already have taken the mayor's suggestion, speaking in code.

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