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by Victor Pinzon
Latin America Governments
Corruption
La Corrupcion en America Latina
Washington, DC. Mayo 20, 2001. Es hora de que los ciudadanos de los paises de Latin
America empiezen a tomar conciencia de la terrible enfermedad que historicamente ha
afectado a sus paises, dirigido por sus oficiales de gobierno -quienes son sus sirvientes
publicos. Por supuesto, esto ocurre en los Estados Unidos tambien.
Varios especificos programas de The Americas Foundation, tales como "Empoderamiento -Agentes de Cambio" Pasantias y Desarrollo de Lideres (AILD) han sido disenados para resolver ese tipo de grandes desperdicios y violacion de leyes.
There is much that we can do, and we have developed a strategic plan that includes establishing strategic partnerships, showing the great benefits of having efective, honest, transparent govenrment institutions. Our governments must be managed by individuals that will behave and manage their communities and countries as do the best, most competitive, customer friendly private sector companies' CEOs. We should develop local, national and international laws and procedures to speedily deal with severity with those violators of our public trust.
Transparencia Internacional, una organizacion independiente, ha establecido el Indice de Percepcion sobre Corrupcion. De acuerdo al ultimo informe los 10 paises mas confiables son:
Finlandia con 10.0 puntos, seguida de Dinamarca, Nueva Zelanda, Suecia, Canada, Islandia, Noruega, Singapur, Holanda y Reino Unido.
Mientras tanto el mejor pais de Latin America es Chile, ubicado en el puesto 18.
Pais
Puntos Lugar Lugar
Mundial A. Latina
Chile
5.4 18
1
C. Rica
5.0 30
2
Peru
4.4 41
3
El Salvador 4.1
43
4
Brasil
3.9 49
5
Argentina 3.5
52
6
Mexico
3.3 59
7
Colombia 3.2
60
8
Bolivia
2.7 71
9
Venezuela 2.7
71
9
Ecuador
2.6 75
11
Fuente: Transparencia Internacional
Empty Promises, Status Quo, No Political
Will
Colombian President Andres Pastrana run his political presidential camapign with the theme
"Cambio Colombia." As a candidate, Pastrana promised that in the event he won
the presidency, he will get rid of corruption in the Colombian government. Wel, he won.
Yet, Colombia, near three years after Pastrana took office continues as corrupt or even
worse than when he took office. There is no evidence that Pastrana's government has
processed with vigor a single case of government corruption.
Impunity continues rampant. Impunity is the rule of the day. Some officials of his govenment have been charged with corruption practices or conflicts of interest. Including his Ambassador before the White House, Luis Alberto Moreno. It is time that open, transparent, speedy investigations of government corruption officials be made the standard norm and procedure. This would enable to restore the credibility and faith of the government - a fundamental pilar to start the process of effective government and democracy.
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