2024-01-30 00:00:00
What happens with the illegal sale of merchandise reveals once again the systematic and endemic corruption that has reigned in Tucumán for decades. Corruption is defined as the use of political power or the privileges of a public office to achieve personal benefits. In simple terms, these are cases in which public servants take their tasks, functions and available resources as private businesses. Virtually all scientific research on corruption agrees that: a) It undermines the legitimacy of public institutions. b) Attacks society, moral order, justice and the integral and harmonious development of a country or region. Accepting that representative democracy is an indispensable condition for the stability, peace and development of Argentina, by its nature it requires combating all forms and types of corruption in the exercise of public functions that occur in any of the powers. of the State. As background, Max Weber (father of Sociology), in his works distinguishes between politicians who live for politics and politicians who live from politics, with which it stops being valid by itself and becomes an instrument of enrichment. Fighting this scourge will strengthen our institutions, avoid economic distortions, vices in the administration of public affairs and the deterioration of social morality; and, fundamentally, trust in our society will be restored. If we also understood that corruption is the key that opens the doors to worlds such as prostitution, drug trafficking, smuggling, etc., our role as citizens would be more proactive to demand greater and better quality and transparency from the organizations and members that make up the Republic. The specialized bibliography on this topic indicates that some of the instruments to combat corruption are: a) Popular pressure b) That independent journalism investigates and reports acts of corruption c) That the reported cases are resolved in a timely manner, with exemplary punishments, especially for the notoriously corrupt. d) Free access to public information (in Tucumán we lack this right). It is of no use for rulers to carry out some public works or services if corruption continues to undermine the foundations of democracy and ruin the future of the country. “If you don’t fight to end corruption and rot, you will end up being part of it” (Joan Báez).
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