Governmental Harassment

"President Enrique Peña Nieto sat before the nation’s titans of industry and allowed himself a smile.

[...] But the president needed more from the nation’s top business leaders, perhaps his most important allies. He needed loyalty. According to five people who recounted the private gathering in May, the president turned to Claudio X. González Laporte, a corporate chairman revered in Mexico.

Your son, the president told him, needs to stop being so critical of the government.

The room fell quiet. Mr. González’s son had spent nearly two decades fighting the twin plagues of corruption and impunity blighting Mexico. But his latest endeavor, an investigative news group that has exposed contract rigging by Mr. Peña Nieto’s allies, was making too much noise for the president’s liking.

'Civil society should not spend so much time talking about corruption,' the president scolded Mr. González. The powerful crowd sat stunned at the attack on one of their own, until Mr. González broke the silence.

'I’m proud of my son and the work he is doing,' he responded." [NYT:source]