For the first time in fifty years, Colombia is faced with the possibility of signing a Peace Agreement and entering a post-conflict period which invites national reconciliation and the recovery of the social fabric. However, before the conflict began, we Colombians already lived with the scourge of corruption, which has accompanied us since colonial times. To think and build a country in peace and reconciled, it is not possible without first stopping corruption. Cases such as that of Agro Ingreso Seguro (12,700 million), that of the Empresa de Energía de Pereira (64,700 million), the Transmilenio on Calle 26 (156,000 million), the Bogotá-Girardot road (170,800 million), CAPRECOM (559,500 million)) and that of SALUDCOOP EPS (1.7 billion), among others, cannot be repeated in a country with peace, justice and equity,like the one we propose to build.
To understand a bit the phenomenon of corruption in Colombia, it is important to understand its origins, which is why it is important to bring up the investigation of the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, contained in the book "Heirs of Evil: Mafia Clans and Jam". This study highlights that despite the efforts of different sectors of the country to unmask politicians allied socially and legally with criminal groups, the citizens of some regions continue to vote for the same candidates with obscure origins. The conclusion is painful: 70 parliamentarians elected for the period 2014 - 2018, have serious questions. Many of them are direct heirs of parapolitics;Most of them used large sums of money from the indicative quotas to be elected and some are accused of alleged links with current illegal structures. This is mainly due to the fact that in various areas of the country there are serious problems of local democracy and there are no political alternatives other than the traditional ones. For example, in the department of Bolívar, the main 4 political houses had their bosses in prison. These problems of local democracy are derived from the way in which the State's operation is designed at the local level, where the candidate for Mayor or Governor's Office must negotiate the endorsement of the party with the regional political head of the community, who is generally headed by a sitting senator. After negotiating the guarantee, go to contractors,whether they are legal or illegal, so that they finance their campaigns, in exchange for the fact that once I won, they will pay them back that help in hiring. The president who triumphs must distribute the cabinet according to political and financial support.
The above is consistent with the article in Semana magazine: "In the entrails of the monster." The conclusion is very similar to the previous one, the origin of all the corruption is in the electoral campaign. The contractors during the electoral campaign give money to the candidates or money and votes, in order to submit the candidate after being elected. The article stems from an interview with one of the men who best knows this poster of politicians and contractors, who states: “The contractor is the helping hand: he gives to receive. If I give 100 million to the candidate, he reverts me as mayor with a contract of 1,000 million, and from there one can keep up to 40 percent or more ”. “When the candidate is chosen, he already has the hiring pawned with the contractor. After winning the contracts is easy,the mayor places the secretary at the disposal of the contractors. Bidding documents are often designed by the contractor in his own home. And he designs them in such a way that the most berraca multinational comes to earn it. A Perico de los Palotes can beat Odebrecht, it is enough to state that it needs to be a local foundation and the best company in the world has already been disqualified. " "The controller is usually tied to the contract, but if he doesn't, he takes 5 percent." The interview concludes by saying: “Now it is more profitable to be corrupt than to be a drug dealer. There are about 50 contractor combos. There are some combos that are richer than the narcos. There are others who have contracts all over the country, but they don't get into big contracts so as not to be visible. Now the contractors brought the politicians to their knees. "””Bidding documents are often designed by the contractor in-house. And he designs them in such a way that the most berraca multinational comes to earn it. A Perico de los Palotes can beat Odebrecht, it is enough to say that it needs to be a local foundation and the best company in the world has already been disqualified. " "The controller is usually tied to the contract, but if he doesn't, he takes 5 percent." The interview concludes by saying: “Now it is more profitable to be corrupt than to be a drug dealer. There are about 50 contractor combos. There are some combos that are richer than the narcos. There are others who have contracts all over the country, but they don't get into the big contracts so as not to be visible. Now the contractors brought the politicians to their knees. "Bidding documents are often designed by the contractor in his own home. And he designs them in such a way that the most berraca multinational comes to earn it. A Perico de los Palotes can beat Odebrecht, it is enough to say that it needs to be a local foundation and the best company in the world has already been disqualified. " "The controller is usually tied to the contract, but if he doesn't, he takes 5 percent." The interview concludes by saying: “Now it is more profitable to be corrupt than to be a drug dealer. There are about 50 contractor combos. There are some combos that are richer than the narcos. There are others who have contracts all over the country, but they don't get into big contracts so as not to be visible. Now the contractors brought the politicians to their knees. "And he designs them in such a way that the most berraca multinational comes to earn it. A Perico de los Palotes can beat Odebrecht, it is enough to say that it needs to be a local foundation and the best company in the world has already been disqualified. " "The controller is usually tied to the contract, but if he doesn't, he takes 5 percent." The interview concludes by saying: “Now it is more profitable to be corrupt than to be a drug dealer. There are about 50 contractor combos. There are some combos that are richer than the narcos. There are others who have contracts all over the country, but they don't get into the big contracts so as not to be visible. Now the contractors brought the politicians to their knees. "And he designs them in such a way that the most berraca multinational comes to earn it. A Perico de los Palotes can beat Odebrecht, it is enough to say that it needs to be a local foundation and the best company in the world has already been disqualified. " "The controller is usually tied to the contract, but if he doesn't, he takes 5 percent." The interview concludes by saying: “Now it is more profitable to be corrupt than to be a drug dealer. There are about 50 contractor combos. There are some combos that are richer than the narcos. There are others who have contracts all over the country, but they don't get into the big contracts so as not to be visible. Now the contractors brought the politicians to their knees. "it is enough to state that it needs to be a local foundation and the best company in the world has already been disqualified. " "The controller is usually tied to the contract, but if he doesn't, he takes 5 percent." The interview concludes by saying: “Now it is more profitable to be corrupt than to be a drug dealer. There are about 50 contractor combos. There are some combos that are richer than the narcos. There are others who have contracts all over the country, but they don't get into big contracts so as not to be visible. Now the contractors brought the politicians to their knees. "it is enough to state that it needs to be a local foundation and the best company in the world has already been disqualified. " "The controller is usually tied to the contract, but if he doesn't, he takes 5 percent." The interview concludes by saying: “Now it is more profitable to be corrupt than to be a drug dealer. There are about 50 contractor combos. There are some combos that are richer than the narcos. There are others who have contracts all over the country, but they don't get into big contracts so as not to be visible. Now the contractors brought the politicians to their knees. "There are some combos that are richer than the narcos. There are others who have contracts all over the country, but they don't get into the big contracts so as not to be visible. Now the contractors brought the politicians to their knees. "There are some combos that are richer than the narcos. There are others who have contracts all over the country, but they don't get into the big contracts so as not to be visible. Now the contractors brought the politicians to their knees. "
The origins of corruption in the country lie in the electoral campaigns, and in a year of regional elections the danger that the cartels of politicians and contractors will come to power is imminent. A first notice from the Electoral Observation Mission - MOE, in its last report of June 1, 2015, in which it drew attention to 93 municipalities that have at least double the national average rate of registration of cédulas. At the top of the list is the municipality of Castilla la Nueva in Meta, which has a rate per thousand inhabitants of 212.96 registered, while the national average is 26.24. The other municipalities that are among the 10 with the highest enrollment rate are La Jagua De Ibirico (Cesar), Guamal (Meta), Guavatá (Santander), Becerril (Cesar), Cabuyaro (Meta), San José De Pare (Boyacá), El Dorado (Meta),La Jagua Del Pilar (La Guajira), San Carlos De Guaroa (Meta). There are also 32 municipalities that are three times above the national average rate (78.72).
The highest expression of democracy is the vote, and it is in these regional elections that local leaders will be chosen who will lay the first stone in the construction of a country in peace. If you want to build a different country, you cannot replicate the same models and let the same cartels of politicians and contractors come to power and renew the cycle of corruption in which we find ourselves immersed. Therefore, the call must be to make civil society aware of the importance of voting in the regional elections on October 25 as the primary mechanism to attack the scourge of corruption.
