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Ministers of the Court: opulence at the expense of the treasury

ARE 32 MILLION PESOS ONLY ONCE MINISTERS TO YEAR
The Supreme Court arrives at its 186th anniversary as a more expensive higher courts in the world. Only the salary, benefits and compensation of the 11 ministers exceed 32 million pesos annually, while, your meals have cost 9 million dollars between 2009 and 2011. In that same period, officials of the Supreme Court's 159 million spent on health insurance, 116 million in travel and tickets, 54 million purchase of vehicles and gasoline, and 5 million mobile services. According to the minister Cossio Díaz, the discussion of wages and benefits in the Court is exceeded; however, official records reveal the "licenses" that ministers are given for wasting public money
Every minister of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) costs Mexicans between 163 and 223 000 245 000 428 pesos a month , find the latest data of that institution. Year, the total amount of 11 salaries, benefits and net compensation amounts to some 32 million pesos.
According to their reports of transparency in pay-monthly since January to September 2010 - monthly spending amounted to 2 million 696 thousand 716 pesos, so that each minister would have received a net salary of 245 thousand 428 pesos.
In October, November and December last year, the monthly rate rose to 2 million 454 thousand 803, equivalent to 223,000 individual wages of 163 pesos.
holders of the Supreme Court, the Treasury also pays their "food costs", which between 2009 and 2011 added 9 million 476 thousand pesos. Also, covers the purchase of luxury vehicles for transportation, gasoline and additives, and the salary of the 79 drivers who have at their disposal the 11 ministers and senior officials of the Court. The monthly salary of each driver is 12 thousand 627 pesos.
At least Mayagoitia Minister Guillermo Ortiz has also a team security guards paid SCJN resources, on the record of the Committee on Government and Administration of the Supreme Court. At the time, the former Minister Genaro Gongora Pimentel likewise made use of a security group.
- Are justifiable salaries and allowances paid to ministers?
-are set by Congress and already entered the rule can not earn more than the president. That's already established constitutional articles. I think at this point that discussion is not much sense because according to the transitory and subject to what is stated in the amendment to the Constitution, we are already taxed, we are limited. Is already established in the same direction as the Constitution makes provision ¬ ¬ "says Contralínea Minister Jose Ramon Cossio Diaz.
However, the net monthly salary of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa is 208 thousand 570 pesos, said the President of the Republic in the Transparency Obligations Portal.
"The ministers should receive minimum wage, like the President, to see how it feels. In addition to his salary, each minister has features that triple or quadruple the amount thereof. They have expenses, drivers and cars, in the plural; they pay the household, the maintenance of their homes and food, "says Juan de Dios Hernández Monge, lawyer and member of the Lawyers Collective Zapatistas. The SCJN
, benefits and compensation are not limited to active ministers: former ministers or benefit, as they are called "ministers in retirement." The cushy reach even the wives of those who have died, he discovered the minutes of the meeting of the Governance Committee and Management November 19, 2009. Ministers signed by Margarita Luna Ramos, Guillermo Ortiz and Juan Silva Meza Mayagoitia indicates that the payment of bonuses for "retired ministers' and widows was adopted despite Silva Meza that voted against the bonus for widows.

"They have a retirement fund that is created with the Treasury to guarantee, even after ending his term as ministers, who have an income of more than 1 million pesos a month, when the vast majority of workers in Mexico have one or perhaps two minimum wages as income, ie 1 000 500 to 3000 pesos, "says Hernández Monge.
The lawyer accuses: "It is shameful and insulting what they perceive the ministers for a service that is supposed to be public. These officers should live in the honorable mediocrity, as I said Benito Juárez. But obviously are far from it. Now it turns out that even the widows of ministers have annuities that represent many tens of thousands of dollars a month. " MORE ON
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