The holy man spend the afternoon in jail and 90,000 pesos for the privilege of killing a little old lady and hurting 5 younger ones, incuding a few kids.
So how much is your dead grandmother (or granddaughter) worth in Mexico?
About 37,000 pesos!
The sum is fixed by the Mexican Ley Federal de Trabajo, which pegs the fine at 700 times the minimum wage in Mexico City.
Heck, that's cheaper than buying car insurance in New York City.
Although Mexico probably has as many lawyers per population as the US, it is not blessed with the tort system of multimillion dollar verdicts. Instead most lawyers are employed by the government to use their legal expertise in political offices like departments of agriculture, road building, welfare and similar feeding grounds. I don´t know which system is worse.
