OPINET COLUMN
The neologism 'roscograma' is a term that perfectly captures a perverse reality: that the Colombian state diagram looks more like a family tree. And although it is usually emphasized that the salaries paid by the state are low compared with the private sector, all the kindreds of the President notablato-down-fight and spread all positions of importance to grant you the power and revenue for ever and ever.
is clear that there is a system of disqualifications and incompatibilities and influence peddling are punished, but made the law, a loophole. No nepotism if I named his lady in charge and you to my cousin, another name his son and someone else will give a contract to my nephew, all finely woven, as a subtle web that you do not see until wearing it on the head. And that
web is a form of corruption as or worse than cronyism, as this involves the natural sense of political participation, which is to govern with friends. Instead, enter the relatives in positions of privilege is a use of public for private gain, by extension, are, and whether this was reduced to its proper proportions, as would a former president whose granddaughter, incidentally, directed the National Television useless, "this would not be a cancer that is eating into the state from within.
This disease must be advanced as a judge of the Supreme Court asked the President of the Republic without blushing, to mediate for a place for a major in medicine that the judge's son did not get through entrance examination. That is, thanks to the threads, which nature does not give, Salamanca does grant. Moreover, the bulk of the population disapproves of drug trafficking, guerrillas, paramilitaries and, supposedly, the corruption, but few condemn the threads, who criticizes passes envious, and have been so deeply ingrained in the national imagination that all the world that accepts that "evil is not in them." Threads are
gear that Alvaro Gomez Hurtado called "the law", the unfair system that is structured to benefit a few. Such injustice prevents social mobility, it violates the principle of equality and is the generator, the lack of opportunities, most of the country's problems.
say that it will end sounds utopian, but ask to legalize not only a mistake but an act of complicity with what is detestable vice. Cynics wonder what the state would live rodents. Because they are so smart and well prepared to merge companies and provide employment to combat procedures, smuggling, revaluation, poor infrastructure ... But, yes, without a formal contract, to see how long they last. Family businesses do not go beyond the third generation, and as the State has always been a business family, here is a cause of its degradation. As anyone
given two housing subsidies should be regulated only one person per family may hold, in the state, mid-level positions up, and limiting the award of contracts, grants, scholarships, broadcasters, public notaries , conservatorships and the like. Likewise, we must put an hindrance to the votes hereditary-tied with sacks of cement, tiles and fans, because so many 'typical' is neither normal nor desirable. The downside is that it depends on the lawmakers, who are the lifeblood of that same tree, and tell them, as Lampedusa manage to change the scenery but to do business as usual. Perhaps technology we derive from the uncompromising rigor of a computer (the Single Procurement Portal was short), although it is feared that the Big Brother you manage their large relatives always
