Good night everyone, especially workers in the hotel that allow us to make this event as it should.
It gives me great pride to comment on the essay "Letter from the Corruption Portrait", by Professor Raul Leis, in the contributions of Friedrich Ebert Foundation to improving democracy, observing the social phenomenon of corruption and specific action on the political system as a source of institutional instability in Latin America and specifically in our country.
The test goes beyond our expectations, as there is corruption from the traditional prism legalistic or criticism to political practice, but watching it on their complexity, establishing interconnections but not always obvious to the cultural, hegemonic globalization, electoral laws, among others.
Acierta in starting a comprehensive analysis of the connection between corruption and the justice system, highlighting the inadequacies of the extensive political and administrative discretion in the selection procedures of the labor force in the investigation of crime, the interpretation of laws by the courts, reaching the prison system with the imposition and enforcement of sentences, the unequal access to judicial oversight, and in general, the different effects on different social justice.
I say is right to start considering these interdependencies of a negative (or complicity with the powers that be) that affect the results and obstruct the implementation of the possible role of the administration of justice and balance of a democratic constitutional state, the fundamental importance of that role, which would be met fully if the judges as a body (highlighting notable exceptions) have the intellectual capacity and mainly ethical institutional play a less modest, if not mediocre.
Desde luego esto implicaría una mayor presencia social de los magistrados y una segura confrontación con los órganos que controlan nombramientos y presupuestos, pero sería un avance para la sociedad y para la institución.
Este espacio concluye con las preguntas del autor: ¿pueden las jueces ser independientes del poder que los nombra?, ¿cómo superar la corrupción?, ¿cuál es el papel de los jueces en la sociedad actual, en relación a la arbitrariedad, la delincuencia y el abuso?
Luego acierta con en la sección “Las múltiples caras de la corrupción: el pez se pudre de la cabeza hacia abajo”, cuando señala economic and political power as a triggering agent of corruption as a social phenomenon, involving officials and individuals with the power to influence or decide. State and explain the modalities of corruption: social, private and public, administrative and political.
presents social and political reality, ultimately determined by the economy, generating corruption, inequality and exclusion that are mutually reinforcing to form an environment where as always, the first moral value is to survive.
question then is are we condemned to continue living in corruption, "to levels that can harm and seriously affect the development of society, economy and democracy itself?
raised repeatedly in the trial, the need for citizen action through a new ethics policy. Hits again, as a social problem is not solved politically through rules of law and in any case, such rules and institutional behavior not come from the members that today make the rules at the request of the executive or the owner of the party (which is what same) of the ministers who appointed him, it also appoints judges and the legislative "ratification", all of which are controlled, investigate, judge and condemn each other in the only plane of the ideal, nor the solutions come from the economic forces that have shaped the country and their political parties as a means to access the government within a democratic and coating appearance of legality to their way of life: economic activities very close to speculation and corruption. Corruption exists because there are corrupt, laws and institutions tailored to protect the corrupt. Continuing
book describing the corruption in their forms, media, source, networking, dimensions (mentioned the abuse of economic and political power, lack or weakness of mechanisms of control, permissive ethics).
On the political dimension of abuse of power, is about the need for consultation and participation mechanisms, the duty of organizing society, the duty to protest and to suggest the need for limits and civic institutional frameworks discretion over presidential systems used by our
In the economic dimension makes another interesting connection with the rules governing trade between countries and regions with profound asymmetries helping to exacerbate internal inequalities, and the actions of transnational corporations "carrier of bribes and kickbacks that contribute to poverty and insecurity in countries without national and international controls to prevent this situation. "
Throughout the trial was observed that for a steady deterioration of social reality, social action necessary against corruption requires ethics and science from its origin to a different policy. Without wishing to say that social change lies in the individual and the possible isolation might generate such an approach, it is clear the value of subjective and militant commitment to social transformation.
assume that things are well, have to adapt, always have been, no way to change policy is inherently corrupt, power inevitably corrupts and that therefore it is better not to participate, are the most common and counterproductive attitudes and behaviors in large sectors of the population.
who want to change this country can not stay home. The country's fundamental decisions are taken by political, but we do not like. Is to leave open court to continue no matter what happens. The policy is neither bad nor good in itself, is socially inevitable, "bad" or "good" are the means and ends of political practices. Also in this country, what they call those who occupy those spaces politics is politics, charged of ignorance and mental laziness. On the contrary, we must participate, if you want to improve this country.
The opposite is to give trial for "fear of temptation, by insecurity in our database, by" maybe "or pessimism and also justify a priori the wrong behavior of those who reach a helm because" Power corrupts, "which is not necessarily true or invariable, as no one hurts more than it already was, or had to be available.
abstract Al disqualify confused with politics and politicking, each day we require and we undertake to stillness, and then complain about what others do. You have to participate, however anyone can be forced, in that it is very basic mental disposition to do or let others do what they please.
Many other interfaces are made visible in the work: of corruption with the media, civil society, social movements, public opinion and stakeholder partnerships.
Leveraging the broad sense given by the author to corruption and corrupt broadest sense (alter, subvert, ruin, damage, pervert, vitiate, nag, even smell bad) would like to take this opportunity to point out some examples :
1. the traditional land of a people is given in concession to a multinational company, this land is sold and concession are evicted the residents, showing that the employer, the company (whether livestock or hydro), in order: the profit outweighs human dignity and existence of an entire people and culture, as does my fellow Naso, there is corruption.
2. that the mechanisms for consultation and participation in projects to exploit natural resources can be made 6 hours in the affected community, so if you find it, it is as difficult as possible to get counting distance and limited resources, and if it comes, have to counter the buses of people who rent to sign any paper, as is the case with many hydroelectric and mining projects, there is corruption.
3. use riot police, mayors, governors, directors of Indian policy, MPs and ministers only to leave land, destroy community centers, looting crops, demolish homes, schools and private benefit, there is corruption.
4. alter curricula to suit only the needs of labor market, and not for the construction of citizenship, undermining "the way" the working conditions of teachers and therefore an organized social sector, there is corruption.
All these actions have been consistently made by all previous administrations since I have memory, all previous and current government.
The author concludes with a minimal agenda: research and punishment of corruption, civic mobilization processes and citizenship, social audits and citizen oversight, perform diagnostics of vulnerability to corruption in institutions.
Other proposals include: administrative reforms to reduce conflicts of interest, seeking independence of the judiciary and reform the political system.
insist, believing that it is in line with the work or at least caused by it, the urgent need for ethics and science in political action, but specific action because the questioning and the word help, but only action transforms, and tolerance or indifference to the absurd makes us accomplices dead weight even if by default, adopting such a state as a political position.
Citing a work of Anibal Ponce, "there is a war of all days, all hours ... the lesser of the events thus has a precise meaning. Know for whom we work. Every weakness is a triumph of the other, each inconsistency treason. "
Thanks.
It gives me great pride to comment on the essay "Letter from the Corruption Portrait", by Professor Raul Leis, in the contributions of Friedrich Ebert Foundation to improving democracy, observing the social phenomenon of corruption and specific action on the political system as a source of institutional instability in Latin America and specifically in our country.
The test goes beyond our expectations, as there is corruption from the traditional prism legalistic or criticism to political practice, but watching it on their complexity, establishing interconnections but not always obvious to the cultural, hegemonic globalization, electoral laws, among others.
Acierta in starting a comprehensive analysis of the connection between corruption and the justice system, highlighting the inadequacies of the extensive political and administrative discretion in the selection procedures of the labor force in the investigation of crime, the interpretation of laws by the courts, reaching the prison system with the imposition and enforcement of sentences, the unequal access to judicial oversight, and in general, the different effects on different social justice.
I say is right to start considering these interdependencies of a negative (or complicity with the powers that be) that affect the results and obstruct the implementation of the possible role of the administration of justice and balance of a democratic constitutional state, the fundamental importance of that role, which would be met fully if the judges as a body (highlighting notable exceptions) have the intellectual capacity and mainly ethical institutional play a less modest, if not mediocre.
Desde luego esto implicaría una mayor presencia social de los magistrados y una segura confrontación con los órganos que controlan nombramientos y presupuestos, pero sería un avance para la sociedad y para la institución.
Este espacio concluye con las preguntas del autor: ¿pueden las jueces ser independientes del poder que los nombra?, ¿cómo superar la corrupción?, ¿cuál es el papel de los jueces en la sociedad actual, en relación a la arbitrariedad, la delincuencia y el abuso?
Luego acierta con en la sección “Las múltiples caras de la corrupción: el pez se pudre de la cabeza hacia abajo”, cuando señala economic and political power as a triggering agent of corruption as a social phenomenon, involving officials and individuals with the power to influence or decide. State and explain the modalities of corruption: social, private and public, administrative and political.
presents social and political reality, ultimately determined by the economy, generating corruption, inequality and exclusion that are mutually reinforcing to form an environment where as always, the first moral value is to survive.
question then is are we condemned to continue living in corruption, "to levels that can harm and seriously affect the development of society, economy and democracy itself?
raised repeatedly in the trial, the need for citizen action through a new ethics policy. Hits again, as a social problem is not solved politically through rules of law and in any case, such rules and institutional behavior not come from the members that today make the rules at the request of the executive or the owner of the party (which is what same) of the ministers who appointed him, it also appoints judges and the legislative "ratification", all of which are controlled, investigate, judge and condemn each other in the only plane of the ideal, nor the solutions come from the economic forces that have shaped the country and their political parties as a means to access the government within a democratic and coating appearance of legality to their way of life: economic activities very close to speculation and corruption. Corruption exists because there are corrupt, laws and institutions tailored to protect the corrupt. Continuing
book describing the corruption in their forms, media, source, networking, dimensions (mentioned the abuse of economic and political power, lack or weakness of mechanisms of control, permissive ethics).
On the political dimension of abuse of power, is about the need for consultation and participation mechanisms, the duty of organizing society, the duty to protest and to suggest the need for limits and civic institutional frameworks discretion over presidential systems used by our
In the economic dimension makes another interesting connection with the rules governing trade between countries and regions with profound asymmetries helping to exacerbate internal inequalities, and the actions of transnational corporations "carrier of bribes and kickbacks that contribute to poverty and insecurity in countries without national and international controls to prevent this situation. "
Throughout the trial was observed that for a steady deterioration of social reality, social action necessary against corruption requires ethics and science from its origin to a different policy. Without wishing to say that social change lies in the individual and the possible isolation might generate such an approach, it is clear the value of subjective and militant commitment to social transformation.
assume that things are well, have to adapt, always have been, no way to change policy is inherently corrupt, power inevitably corrupts and that therefore it is better not to participate, are the most common and counterproductive attitudes and behaviors in large sectors of the population.
who want to change this country can not stay home. The country's fundamental decisions are taken by political, but we do not like. Is to leave open court to continue no matter what happens. The policy is neither bad nor good in itself, is socially inevitable, "bad" or "good" are the means and ends of political practices. Also in this country, what they call those who occupy those spaces politics is politics, charged of ignorance and mental laziness. On the contrary, we must participate, if you want to improve this country.
The opposite is to give trial for "fear of temptation, by insecurity in our database, by" maybe "or pessimism and also justify a priori the wrong behavior of those who reach a helm because" Power corrupts, "which is not necessarily true or invariable, as no one hurts more than it already was, or had to be available.
abstract Al disqualify confused with politics and politicking, each day we require and we undertake to stillness, and then complain about what others do. You have to participate, however anyone can be forced, in that it is very basic mental disposition to do or let others do what they please.
Many other interfaces are made visible in the work: of corruption with the media, civil society, social movements, public opinion and stakeholder partnerships.
Leveraging the broad sense given by the author to corruption and corrupt broadest sense (alter, subvert, ruin, damage, pervert, vitiate, nag, even smell bad) would like to take this opportunity to point out some examples :
1. the traditional land of a people is given in concession to a multinational company, this land is sold and concession are evicted the residents, showing that the employer, the company (whether livestock or hydro), in order: the profit outweighs human dignity and existence of an entire people and culture, as does my fellow Naso, there is corruption.
2. that the mechanisms for consultation and participation in projects to exploit natural resources can be made 6 hours in the affected community, so if you find it, it is as difficult as possible to get counting distance and limited resources, and if it comes, have to counter the buses of people who rent to sign any paper, as is the case with many hydroelectric and mining projects, there is corruption.
3. use riot police, mayors, governors, directors of Indian policy, MPs and ministers only to leave land, destroy community centers, looting crops, demolish homes, schools and private benefit, there is corruption.
4. alter curricula to suit only the needs of labor market, and not for the construction of citizenship, undermining "the way" the working conditions of teachers and therefore an organized social sector, there is corruption.
All these actions have been consistently made by all previous administrations since I have memory, all previous and current government.
The author concludes with a minimal agenda: research and punishment of corruption, civic mobilization processes and citizenship, social audits and citizen oversight, perform diagnostics of vulnerability to corruption in institutions.
Other proposals include: administrative reforms to reduce conflicts of interest, seeking independence of the judiciary and reform the political system.
insist, believing that it is in line with the work or at least caused by it, the urgent need for ethics and science in political action, but specific action because the questioning and the word help, but only action transforms, and tolerance or indifference to the absurd makes us accomplices dead weight even if by default, adopting such a state as a political position.
Citing a work of Anibal Ponce, "there is a war of all days, all hours ... the lesser of the events thus has a precise meaning. Know for whom we work. Every weakness is a triumph of the other, each inconsistency treason. "
Thanks.
* Comments made on behalf of Collective Human Rights-University of Panama,
on February 25, 2010, at the Hotel Miramar, Panama City,
in the book "Portrait Written of Corruption "by Professor Raul Leis,
Fudación event organized by the Friedrich Ebert.
The book is available in digital version here
