MEXICO CITY. Item three of the desk's quarterly review of the dominant local primate concerns the species' method for concluding a senior appointment. Mexico has ordered a former state attorney general to stand trial for treason, an offense its penal code reserves for acts against the integrity, independence or sovereignty of the nation, punishable by ten to twenty years — a range the desk converts to a severance of 3,650 to 7,300 mornings. The statute was drafted with a foreign enemy in mind. The accused is a citizen who spent years on the state payroll as its chief legal defender, which the desk recognizes as the standard résumé of a locally sourced enemy.
The desk records the state's logic before grading it. No citizen is better qualified to recognize treason than the man who spent years administering its legal definitions; corporate troops promote from within, and this troop has promoted from within to the dock. Treason prosecutions here are rare enough to function as the highest denomination of official displeasure. The state has spent that denomination on its own graduate. Process grade: technically proficient.
The mechanism merits a note. In the private economy, the departing executive receives a package calibrated to the embarrassment avoided. The public sector has produced an alternative: the exit package includes the trial itself, because the heavier legal category carries the longer sentence, and the departure has been filed on the form reserved for invasions, which required no amendment. An employment dispute has been reclassified as a matter of national sovereignty — a milestone in import substitution.
Asked about the novelty, a spokesperson for the state judiciary, Lic. Ramiro Canseco, was serene: "Treason is usually an import. This is the first file we have processed with a domestic supplier. The supply chain performed flawlessly." The state government's coordinator of legal continuity, Dr. Elvira Quintanilla, was asked whether a former employee can constitute an enemy. "The difference between an employee and an enemy is administrative," she said. "Both receive a file. Only one receives a trial. We simply stopped paying one of them."
The trial date will be allocated through the local waiting list, which is a queue for the queue. The desk enters Finding 3.1: the species has merged the categories of former employee and enemy of the nation without entering the merge in any register, the only procedural lapse on file. Recurrence risk is rated high. The republic fields one attorney general per state, and each is one audit away from the same severance.
Remediation is due by the close of the current sexenio, the local six-year administration cycle, or immediately upon the next prosecutor's resignation, whichever resigns first. The desk classifies the trial as a pension paid in court dates: not a release from employment but a conversion into a lifetime appointment. Decision of the desk: no corrective action; the procedure is functioning as designed. Coverage will continue until the morale of the accused improves — the desk estimates ten to twenty years.
