Politician's daughter gets restaurant shut down because she was given wrong table
Published: 2013 April 30 11:13:16 (6191 Views)
Andrea Benitez, the daughter of the federal attorney general for consumer protection, Humberto Benitez Trevino, went to the Maximo Bistrot restaurant in one of the capital's trendy neighbourhoods and apparently didn't get the table she wanted or had been promised.
Just hours after the incident, inspectors showed up with official "suspended" signs to punish the restaurant.
Benitez Trevino issued a statement apologising for "the inappropriate behavior of my daughter Andrea."
"She exaggerated the situation and the officials of the Attorney General's Office for Consumer Protection, which I head, overreacted because it was my daughter," he wrote.
"Immediately upon hearing of the situation, I ordered the raid (on the restaurant) suspended, to avoid any excesses."
The Economy Department, which oversees Benitez Trevino's office, said President Enrique Pena Nieto had ordered the federal comptroller's office to open an investigation into the case.
The restaurant was able to open for business on Sunday, and Benitez Trevino's office said the inspectors had suspended only two of the bistro's permits: one that governed reservations and one covering liquor sales, because volume contents of bottles were not appropriately listed.
But many saw it as an example of the string-pulling and influence-wielding all too common in Mexico, where arguments with politicians' relatives often end with the threatening phrase, "You don't know who you're messing with."
It is the latest of several cases of seeming arrogance by the wealthy and well-connected that have caused anger recently in a country with deep class divisions.
"As a society, we are fed up with, disgusted with this," said writer Guadalupe Loaeza. "This is an attitude of the past; it doesn't fit with the times."
The government said it has launched an investigation into the incident over the weekend at an upscale Mexico City restaurant.
The announcement came after an outpouring of anger in social media over the raid by inspectors - a contrast to the past when people didn't have the means to publicize such incidents.
Pena Nieto's own daughter Paulina was involved in a similarly embarrassing incident in late 2011. Reacting to social media critiques of her father, the teenager re-tweeted a comment that described people gloating over his gaffes as "the bunch of idiots who form part of the proletariat and only criticize those they envy."
Pena Nieto quickly apologized on his own Twitter account, and the daughter later wrote, "I apologize with all my heart ... I recognize what I did was wrong and I am sorry."
- Telegraph
Just hours after the incident, inspectors showed up with official "suspended" signs to punish the restaurant.
Benitez Trevino issued a statement apologising for "the inappropriate behavior of my daughter Andrea."
"She exaggerated the situation and the officials of the Attorney General's Office for Consumer Protection, which I head, overreacted because it was my daughter," he wrote.
"Immediately upon hearing of the situation, I ordered the raid (on the restaurant) suspended, to avoid any excesses."
The Economy Department, which oversees Benitez Trevino's office, said President Enrique Pena Nieto had ordered the federal comptroller's office to open an investigation into the case.
The restaurant was able to open for business on Sunday, and Benitez Trevino's office said the inspectors had suspended only two of the bistro's permits: one that governed reservations and one covering liquor sales, because volume contents of bottles were not appropriately listed.
But many saw it as an example of the string-pulling and influence-wielding all too common in Mexico, where arguments with politicians' relatives often end with the threatening phrase, "You don't know who you're messing with."
It is the latest of several cases of seeming arrogance by the wealthy and well-connected that have caused anger recently in a country with deep class divisions.
"As a society, we are fed up with, disgusted with this," said writer Guadalupe Loaeza. "This is an attitude of the past; it doesn't fit with the times."
The government said it has launched an investigation into the incident over the weekend at an upscale Mexico City restaurant.
The announcement came after an outpouring of anger in social media over the raid by inspectors - a contrast to the past when people didn't have the means to publicize such incidents.
Pena Nieto's own daughter Paulina was involved in a similarly embarrassing incident in late 2011. Reacting to social media critiques of her father, the teenager re-tweeted a comment that described people gloating over his gaffes as "the bunch of idiots who form part of the proletariat and only criticize those they envy."
Pena Nieto quickly apologized on his own Twitter account, and the daughter later wrote, "I apologize with all my heart ... I recognize what I did was wrong and I am sorry."
- Telegraph
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