Thursday, March 28, 2024

Mayor disguises himself as social services client after citizens complain

When the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, decided to see first-hand how municipal staff were treating social services clients, he was not impressed.

Employees got a shock when a disabled man who had appeared at the city’s social development offices requesting benefits was actually their boss.

Mayor Carlos Tena said that after receiving several complaints about city employees, he decided to dress up as a disabled man to find out for himself if the allegations were true.

“I was planning it for about two months,” he told Milenio. “I decided to do it because I didn’t know who to believe, the citizens or my co-workers.”

As part of the disguise, he wore dark glasses and put a patch over part of his face. When he arrived at the Municipal Palace in a wheelchair to request a benefit, he said, he was ignored and mistreated by the employees, except for one worker who gave him a snack.

The mayor was disappointed with the staff's treatment.
The mayor was disappointed with the staff’s treatment.

Finally, Tena asked to speak to the mayor. When employees told him that the mayor was not available but that he could wait to speak to a secretary, Tena rose from his wheelchair and revealed his true identity.

After his social experiment, Tena called a meeting to express his disappointment with the treatment he had received.

“I’m upset with the people who are working there and are getting paid a salary, that they treat the citizens poorly,” he said. “I made it very clear to them, I told them that I didn’t want to hear about them mistreating someone again.”

The Morena party mayor earned national attention in March when he was arrested by state police for allegedly interfering in an investigation into car theft.

Source: Milenio (sp), Sin Embargo (sp)

The container ship the Dali crashing into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore

AMLO confirms 1 Mexican rescued, 2 missing after Baltimore bridge collapse

0
Mexico's President López Obrador confirmed Wednesday morning that the Mexican nationals were working on the bridge when it collapsed Tuesday.
Firefighters in Veracruz

1,000 firefighters combat blazes in Veracruz as wildfires spike nationwide

0
The wildfires in the mountainous central region of the state started on Saturday and have yet to be fully controlled.
A worker sprays a field with a chemical

Mexico postpones glyphosate ban citing lack of available alternatives

0
The World Health Organization classifies the controversial herbicide as a “probable carcinogen.”