Being a target: Sofía de Robina
Center Prodh... provide[s] legal accompaniment to litigation, cases concerning serious human rights violations including preventative cases to defend land and territory and rather structural cases that involve citizen security.
...We also experienced equipment failures, internet failures and server failures on multiple occasions. We later assumed, in light of the broader context, that these failures were connected to surveillance incidents.
...We didn’t have confirmation that the call could have been obtained by Pegasus, but the affected colleague had received one of the suspicious text messages before. Even if unrelated, at least it showed us there was a much stronger and greater intent to get that information and use against us if necessary.
...The government relies on companies in many other ways, for instance, the privatization of activities. Surely in this transition, many of the actions related to surveillance could have an expanding connection to private actors. Of course, actors can become so intertwined with one another that at some point it becomes difficult to distinguish them, and one is not able to tell where one ends and another begins.