A nice large cooool limeade for your fevered brow mi beloved Yowler's servent:

First, as you said, Mexican Courts are very similar to the North of the 54:40 's, with a 'minor' difference, openess. Here a bit of influence, or $, causes the file to be periodically rotated to the bottom of the "To do files", especially in criminal proceedigs. Yep, it 'is' just as you are thinking.

Second, you did say something about physical labor no??? Horrors ! If our chief of protocol in here can reduce himself to open profanity ????

As you say, the translation leaves much to be desired.

A shocked Don Jose de La Mancha