SINCE 2003 the boringly named Asset Administration and Disposal Service, or sae, has sold off cars and houses seized by Mexico's government mainly from smugglers and tax-dodgers. The sae used to split the proceeds among the police, the judiciary and the health service. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico's president since December 1st last year, has jazzed things up. He now refers to the sae as the "Institute for the Return of Stolen Goods to the People". In June he promised 25.7m pesos ($i.3m) from an auction of ill-gotten goods to two poor indigenous villages in the southern state of Oaxaca. At a televised news conference, the president gave giant cheques to their mayors.
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机译：自2003年以来，无聊的资产管理和处置服务（SAE）出售了墨西哥政府主要从走私者和逃税者手中没收的汽车和房屋。 SAE通常将收益分配给警察，司法部门和卫生部门。自去年12月1日起担任墨西哥总统的安德烈斯·曼努埃尔·洛佩兹·奥夫拉多（Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador）表现出众。他现在将sae称为“被盗货物归还人民研究所”。今年6月，他向南部瓦哈卡州的两个贫困土著村庄承诺通过拍卖非法货物拍卖获得2570万比索（合130万美元）。在电视新闻发布会上，总统给了市长巨额支票。
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