DP #2: Fighting against corruption in Peru

Young people during a strike against Fujimori's government in the year 2000

I got impressed when we saw in class that corruption is a lack that we can find in all countries and societies. No matter how it’s doing its GDP, no matter if it a developed country or with a good public system that ensures wealth and qualified education to all its habitants. In every sphere of public or private sector, we can find examples of how functionaries abuse of the entrusted power they received, for their own interests.

However, I use to think that in the beginning of 2000 decade Peru had one of the most corrupted governments of the story. I can remember all the excesses and how the ex-president Alberto Fujimori stole millions of dollars that Peruvians paid from taxes and bought politicians and media companies in order to maintain his power.

Today Peruvians continue to struggle against all kinds of corruption that lies at all levels of the public sector, as municipalities, ministries, and the police. The private sector is also not immune to this reality, and corruption can also be found in business men that enforce their employees evade taxes (they hate to pay takes all though their companies gain a lot of money per year) or pay public officers to get a license to operate when this is not legally or environmentally allowed.

According to the National Survey on Corruption of Pro Etica, in the year 2010, 80% of peruvians described their own country as corrupt or very corrupt. And 56% of the responders considered that corruption of officials and authorities was the main factor that doesn’t permit our country to progress or reach development.

In the same survey, 46% of Peruvians believed that the Congress was the most corrupted institution, other respond the Police (45%) and the Justice Power (38%). In this scenario, it was a big concern to find out that 30% of Peruvians respond that in five years corruption in our country will increase or will still the same.

So this is our future? I am a more optimist person and believe not. If Peru wants to keep growing, young people must protest against corruption with all the tools they have available (as they did during Fujimori’s dictatorship) with the support of the media and universities. On the other hand, politicians must be the first sector of the society in setting the example as they try to monitor and expose unethical practices. Otherwise, we will still have a corrupt country that only carries rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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