When the deputies play “save the merchant” (and lose)
Iván Escalante, the head of Profeco, has just revealed the juiciest tea of the year: deputies and “comrades of the movement” have called him more than a toxic ex to ask him to leave alone establishments that, surprise, were committing irregularities. The prize for impudence? One legislator even tried to justify a gas station with the classic “they came with balaclavas” (yes, as if they were the Zodiac gang checking gas prices).
The fifi hotel and the VIP cockroaches
But the star drama was the “very fifi hotel” (like that, with all the millennial classism) where the prices were in dollars, they charged extra for cleaning and, for the gourmet touch, they had chef’s cockroaches in the kitchen. Here the plot went up a notch: in half an hour, Escalante received four calls from comrades in the movement, each one more powerful than the last. He even joked: “I told myself: the President is going to call.” Spoiler: he didn’t, but he was given the green light to act. #JusticeKnowsMole
The message was clear: “Do not intervene where you do not know.” Although, let’s be honest, in a country where even closing seals have godfathers, it sounds more like wishful thinking. Escalante even dropped the gem: “The penalty for removing stamps is laughable.” Translation: some would rather pay fines than stop scamming.
Tickets, hams and the art of spinning
Between complaints about a study of hams (because nothing unites Mexico more than the drama of cold cuts) and the mess of the ticket counters that dodge refunds as if they were taxes, Profeco seems like the referee of a match where everyone cheats. They even proposed reducing the deadline for addressing telephone complaints to 72 hours, to which Escalante responded with “not even three lives” would be enough.
Moral: while some deputies play guardian angels for crooked businesses, consumers continue to wait for justice between reports, missed calls and the eternal “the system just can’t do any more“. But hey, at least now we know that even cockroaches have connections.
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