‘A lucrative source’
Der Spiegel also revealed that US agents had hacked into the Mexican presidency’s network, gaining access to Calderon’s account.
According to the report, the NSA said this contained “diplomatic, economic and leadership communications which continue to provide insight into Mexico’s political system and internal stability”.
The agency reportedly said the president’s office was now “a lucrative source”.
Mexican authorities said they would be seeking answers from US officials “as soon as possible”.
“This practice is unacceptable, illegitimate and contrary to Mexican law and international law,” the foreign ministry said.
Glenn Greenwald, an American journalist now living in Brazil who has broken many of the recent stories about secret US surveillance programmes, says Washington has spied on all Latin American countries.
Speaking to a press association in Miami, Greenwald said he would report about each case in the region and warned that more spying within the United States would also be revealed.
He also said the disclosures published by Le Monde Monday had been in the hands of the French daily for some time.
This is not the first time there have been reports that France and Mexico have been targeted in relation to NSA spying allegations since information leaked by Snowden first emerged in June.
Mexico’s current President Enrique Pena Nieto has already complained to Obama over reports US spies have gone through his emails.
And Der Spiegel reported last month that in 2010 the NSA monitored the internal computer network of France’s diplomats and that of the foreign ministry.
But France itself has also been accused of spying. Le Monde reported in recent months that intelligence services intercepted all communications in the country, stocking telephone and computer data for years — accusations denied by the government.
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