Mexican Official's Daughter Gets Restaurant Closed

[Judi Lynn]

Mexican Official's Daughter Gets Restaurant Closed
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press
MEXICO CITY April 29, 2013 (AP)

A Mexican official's daughter has caused a scandal by sending inspectors to shut down a restaurant that didn't give her the table she wanted.

It's 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 Monday it has launched an investigation into the incident over the weekend at an upscale Mexico City bistro.

Andrea Benitez, the daughter of the federal attorney general for consumer protection, Humberto Benitez Trevino, went to the restaurant 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.

More:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexican-officials-daughter-restaurant-closed-19068059#.UX7cz-oo7_Q

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Andrea Benitez, Humberto Benitez' daughter[/center]

Article in Spanish:
Titular de la Profeco y su hija se disculpan por “oso” en restaurante
http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=340455

The father apologized, said he learned about this while recovering from his operation....

[naaman fletcher]

1. nothing worse than entitles, spoiled, brats

thanks for posting.

[rdharma]

2. I don't get it.........

One, two and five dollar bills?

$70?

[Agony]

3. it's the usual anti-Chavez bullshit.

That is a picture of Hugo Chavez's daughter.

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/flashin-cash-chavez-daughter-posts-photos-holding-u.s.-money-venezuela/13577/

[rdharma]

4. I figured as much from the poster above. Thanks for the clarification. eom

[naaman fletcher]

6. Regular people,

have trouble getting dollars in Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

5. That's one of the 2 daughters who was "hot" standing by her dying dad, you wrote.

Someone posted the last photo the 3 of them took, with the daughters on either side of their father's hospital bed, all of them trying to look cheerful and brave, and you decided you would share your view with the Latin America forum that

2. His daughters look good though

I'd write propaganda for Venezuela Analysis if I could have in on that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11089137#post2

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How is it you are reminded of this photo of the daughter of Hugo Chavez, holding a handful of money for a camera shot, by the news a daughter of a Mexican official went out of her way to really harm a restaurant worker, to do him some real damage as payback for getting a table she didn't like at a restaurant?

What's the connection?

[naaman fletcher]

7. the connection is the privelege that the youth of power have

You are against it, except when they wear red.

[rdharma]

8. $70 bucks?

You've got to be kidding!

[naaman fletcher]

9. not kidding at all..

you can't just walk into a bank and get dollars in venezuela.

[Judi Lynn]

10. I'm against lewd comments re: a young woman at the time her father is dying.

That's the point.

Your own comment makes no sense whatsoever.

[rdharma]

11. $70 bucks is "privilege"?

Compared to having the power to have someone's business and livelihood shut down?

[naaman fletcher]

12. The mindset of privilege

Is something that everyone on this forum is completely against, except of course when it's one of your own doing it.

[rdharma]

13. I didn't know that was Chavez' daughter.

SO .......I didn't know who the hell she was when I couldn't see "privilege" in that photo.

Keep diggin'!

[naaman fletcher]

14. Sorry,

I should have made that clear.

[rdharma]

15. No need to apologize......

..... but it should show you exactly who has the bias.

[Catherina]

16. I feel a bit sorry for her dad and his subordinates who jumped to

but she messed up and big time. It's the 22nd century now, catch up.

She looks young enough that maybe the lesson, from the huge social media blowback and the troubles she caused her father, sunk in and she'll learn from this. I sure hope so.

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 governing reservations and one covering liquor sales, because volume contents of bottles were not appropriately listed.

Pena Nieto has to be particularly careful about such incidents since his Institutional Revolutionary Party, which regained power last year after 12 years out of the presidency, had become infamous during its 1929-2000 rule for breeding an extended clan of arrogant, inexplicably wealthy politicians known as the "Revolutionary Family."

Pena Nieto's own daughter Paulina was involved in an 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."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/andrea-benitez-mexican-restaurant-closing_n_3184634.html