Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's Official Photo Costs $29,000

The price photo of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is causing outrage among Mexicans. Many people are taking their opinions to Twitter, where the infuriation continues to stir.

The official photo was published on the official presidency website and also on its social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. The astonishing cost of the image was 376,420 pesos or about $29,000 U.S. dollars. Enrique Peña Nieto is displayed in Mexico's National Palace wearing the presidential band and sitting in the official chair.

According to the International Business Times, the minimum wage in Mexico as of Jan. 1 is 64.76 pesos per day, which is equivalent to $5.09 in U.S. dollars for geographical area A and 61.38 pesos per day, which is equivalent to $4.83 in US dollars for geographical area B. Regardless of the geographical area, to publish an image that costs an incredible $29,000 is offensive and preposterous where citizens struggle to make ends meet and work a full moth to barely earn $150 dollars per month.

The price of the photo was revealed by the Federal Institute of Access to Information and Data Protection, stating that the Mexican federal government hired a photographer named Hector Armando Herrera Peralta, and deemed the expense a "service for photographic session."

Enrique Peña Nieto's is not the first president to be photographed by Herrera Peralta; he has also photographed the former presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón in 2006.

According to new website, Animal Polí­tico, the photographer, who has also shot prominent businessmen, charged Calderón some 234,000 pesos or $18,396.64 US dollars for his official photo.