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 uit 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.
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." While he didn't explicitly say his daughter sicced the inspectors on the eatery, his apology implied she did.
"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."
