Cisen, a story marked by controversy

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Controversial because of its nature of intelligence service, the Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN) is a civil law enforcement agency established in 1989 and attached to the Ministry of the Interior.

Prior to its existence in Mexico, the Federal Security Directorate operated, dissolved in 1985, discredited and implicated in strong accusations, and the Directorate General of Investigation and National Security was also present.

The Cisen operation is to produce specialized and confidential information for the decision-making of governments in turn and, this with, in order to preserve the integrity of the state and the governability of the country.

During the current administration, the Cisen had the largest budgets, only for 2018 they were assigned 2 thousand 888 million 443 thousand 702 pesos, 64.9 million more than what he has received in 2017 (2 thousand 823 million 449 thousand 891 pesos)

The Cisen is responsible for events such as espionage or sabotage against Mexico, in the national territory, acts that prevent the authorities from acting against organized crime, illicit trafficking of nuclear materials, chemical weapons, mass and biological destruction, as well as any act of financing terrorist organizations, among others.

But this intelligence apparatus has been the subject of harsh attacks from opponents who have indicated it as the body that is dedicated to monitoring their activities.

During the campaign, virtual elected president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would seek to disappear to be an instrument for spying on opponents of the regime.

During the pre-campaign, another controversy was produced after the then Por México al Frente coalition candidate, Ricardo Anaya, denounced that Cisen's agents were following him.

Controversies with the Cisen are not new, even in 1994, after the irruption In the Zapatista National Liberation Army, the then president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, claimed that He did not have information that could alert the guerrilla movement

which was clarified later in an interview with Jorge. Telló Peón, who clarified that there was information, but "failed the intelligence cycle."

As a presidential candidate, Vicente Fox also threatened to disappear the intelligence agency, which he accused of having leaked documents for his campaign

In the administration Felipe Calderón, at least 24 agents of Cisen were murdered in the exercise of their functions.

The Supreme Court of the Federation revealed that between 2007 and 2011, the center refused to offer to the intelligence, this was recorded in the public account of 2011.

With the President Enrique Peña Nieto's government, the Executive said that to fight organized crime, more information was needed and that the Cisen enjoyed a high economic budget.