Corruption does not stop

There is no doubt that in many countries there is corruption. The concept of corruption consists in the taking of money it is not form their own work. Politicians usually ask for certain amount of money to the government to make infrastructure, but most of time they use a little part of that amount and the rest is “of them”, this actions obviously affect the standard of life of many people that expects more from their government.
I think that in Mexico is one of the countries with a democratic system that presents almost always a corrupted system. People in the streets have lost confidence to the people on power, and I am one of them. Even if we vote for the “less worse” candidate, we will end up dealing with some corrupt guy.

This is a situation that should concern to all of us because corruption makes honest people lose jobs and make our country a worst place. In Mexico, there have been many shame stories like “Juanito’s” one, a politician that was supposed to quit after winning an election to give his power to other person, it was a false candidate. Come on! In what other country you will se that? Probably none, only in a country where corruption has become more normal each day, something that should worry more than one person.

Where is Mexico Going?

I was reading the New York Times and an opinion article caught my attention because it was about Mexico. The article talked about a recent phenomenon in some Mexican cities; the article refers to it as the “art of renting”. This basically consists on renting a person for any purpose. For example: if you are arrested for whatever minor crime, you can rent a person to spend the nights in jail you were given; or you can rent a person to be your signatory for a “legal” business deal.

I was more than ashamed people from our country are actually doing this. I haven’t read about any of this on the newspapers from Hermosillo. I think it must be a really big deal in other bigger cities because the New York Times is talking about it. I can’t believe this people are willing to leave their dignity aside in order to get money. What’s going on with us? In these times of economic crisis, a lot of employments have been lost. I never imagined we will get to that point. If you think about it, it is a new kind of prostitution. People are paying someone else to spend time in jail in their place. I never thought that was even possible. We are definitely going beyond all levels of corruption and injustice. We are also suffering from a lot of insecurity in Mexico. The drug-related violence is worse than ever and all over the country. I used to believe Hermosillo was a safe city but not anymore. We have no idea what may happen to us as we walk down to the grocery store, as we eat with our family at a restaurant or as we hang out outside our school. Just like the two students from Tec de Monterrey who died tragically.

Renting people will affect the economy and our society if we do not stop it. Imagine all the crimes that will not be punished. This may become a major problem in the future. Today it is really hard for the government to impose the law. Our president is having a really hard time taking control of the drug-related situation in the country. It is such a shame that our justice system cannot do anything to better our security. Our police department is contaminated by criminals all over the place. These made me question on whether our government has the power an actual government should have or not. We learned in class about several countries where the government has no longer control of its people. I am concerned and really afraid we might me heading to that point.

"Get out of the car miss, lets solve this problem ;)"

I want to share with you an experientraffic light to ce i had this weekend. It was a friday night, we went to a party with some friends and had fun. It was almost 1:30 am when we were driving back home. We were waiting for the traffic light to change red, when a police car stops at our right side. The policeman looked at us with a weird sight. The traffic light changed and we started moving. Not even 10 seconds passed when the police car turned the siren ligths on. We stoped imediatley. The police man went to the car and lighted us with his flashlight. But let me explain that if we hadn't had our coats on our legs he would have seeen more than the car's floor. Then the police man sayed: "Are you in a hurry miss ?" and my friend answer: mm noo why ?, he sayed: You are asking why ? You were driving at high speed. ( You should have seen our faces of : what's wrong with this guy ¬¬? we were almost 60km/h could somebody pleas explain me !! and Sam was like: amm are you suree? maybe your speedometer is wrong cup :) and the cup : no miss i can't be wrong! Are you drunk ? Your are drunk right ? Please get out of the car now ! Lets solve this problem ;)

Obviously we didn't get out of the car. We now our rights and we can't be obligated to get out of our car. This kind of things make me soo maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!! Cups are corrupts and promiscuous. But we are more inteligent than them and that's why they let us go with any ticket.

Corruption

On my researchs, I found a map with different levels of corruption, each level had its own color, green was the lowest, and red was the highest. It's sad to see that 6, maybe more countries, are in green. The others are in different levels, but our country, imagine in what level is: red.

I came to realize that the people that claims to serve and protect the people of a community, are the ones that succumb to tentations that go against the laws, leaving our pilitical system in doubt and affecting the very same people that elected them to be in power. Where are the values in this kind of situation? There's a lack of responsability in their charge and their obligations, they should be working and trying to improve the situation of the cmmunity in which they work, that's why they were elected for, but some are just there for the power and the benefits, so they have no problem to accept something that's not approved by the legal system and make it confidential and secret. Of course in our world, there's good and bad people, but unless we know everything about someone, we can't know in what team they play. We have to trust in them. So I think it's unfair, they're not just giving their backs on people just for their own benefits, they betraying the people who wanted them to be there, those who were in their side. We are all humans, we can make mistakes, but if you have that kind of power, at least you could try to do the honorable thing, the one that is better for the people they're supposed to help. So we have to analyze the people who are willing to obtain power, and which are their intentions really.