Gustavo Coronel: Comments on a Report on Latin American Corruption

"The title of this excellent Inter - American Dialogue report by Kevin Casas - Zamora and Miguel Carter: “Beyond the Scandals: The changing context of corruption in Latin America”, already suggests its prevailing line of thought:  the most efficient way to fight corruption is by means of improving regulations and by raising the levels of social accountability. I would argue that scandals should receive at least equal attention, as corruption does not exist in the abstract but exists because real people decide to be corrupt.  A scandal is an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage. Public outrage, the authors of the report agree, is a good mechanism to raise public consciousness about the need to act...."

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