By: Sylvia Davila MM
Bogotá
A person that steals public money here faces one of two scenarios. One,
he or she is not caught. They live a sumptuous life while using and reproducing
multiple ways to steal from the state. Or two, he or she gets caught. A brief
show in the media, a huge amount of money to pay lawyers launched to evade the
law; and the rest of a fortune in banks or investment abroad.
If found guilty a judicial process follows. And he o she that is a
negotiator is given the chance to negotiate punishment for information,
information that should be collected by judges and the police. Once sentence is
pronounced, punishment negotiated, he or she is sent to three or four years in
prison. A smooth life with permissions, mobile phones, and business run from a
cell, saving the rent – we pay that housing - and their fortune giving
dividends abroad. Three or four years after he or she gets out to collect their
fortune and live opulent for the rest of their lives. It is an equations that
too many are willing to try.
And what about us? Well, we are left without the benefits that the
stolen money was intended for, health, education, roads, without the money, and
without justice. Te equation for us is devastating. We could ask what would
happen if punishments were negotiated for money back to the last penny. That
way we could get resources back so much needed in this country painfully under
water. We would also have poor corrupt people which gives a double advantage:
Power to corrupt cut off; and they will know in their own life how it feels to
be poor, robed and impotent. SYLVIA DAVILA MORALES ©
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