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Article from Huff Post - US/Mex Relations

Posted by carol on May 18, 2010, 3:24 pm
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There is an interesting article today in the Huffington Post about US/MX relations. I didn't seem to be able to link to it.

From a personal ancedotal perspective: a French Canadian women who owns the French bakery/expresso place in Barra had quite a different experience. A local ran over her fence and broke pots, damaged plantings etc, but promised to pay her. After it became he was not going to reimburse her, she took him to the Ministerio Publico in Chituatlin. The man who had inflicted the damage was there. He told the judge that the woman was a bad foreigner, who failed to pay her taxes, mistreated her workers, failed to pay insurance for them, etc. The judge stopped him and asked, "Do you have proof of any of this...because if you don't and what you are saying is not true, I will put you in jail. Now, did you do the damage?"
The man responded, "Not what she says. The damage was very little not at all what she is claiming."
The judge turned to Christine and asked if she had proof of her damages. She had pictures of the man, drunk, his car, damaged and all the broken pots and fence underneath it. She had receipts for the repairs and for the original purchases.
The judge asked the man why he had not paid. He started on a tirage about foreigners who take advantage of poor Mexicans and again the judge stopped him, and reminded him that anything he said that was not true could land him in jail.
Then, without her asking, the judge, told the woman that he would give her a restraining order. If the man approached her, he would go to jail; if she brought anyone in or got a statement from anyone who the man had lied to about her, the man would go to jail; he then asked the man to pay up; when he could not, the judge said he would split the damages into three payments. The man would make the payments to the court and the woman could pick them up, as they came in. If any were made, even a day late, the judge would have the police pick up the man and put him in jail.
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