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México frente a la corrupción: ¿qué hacemos para combatirla? | Silber Meza. | TEDxParqueLaLoma


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here
a few months ago a friend of mine from the
primary
he passed by me to my house he was in his car and
I invite you to take a walk
I came to my house I went out I went up
I got in his car and I realized that he
not wearing his seat belt
it took about 34 minutes
and I said, hey, why do not you wear your
belt
well
get hurt injuring yourself and also after
to infringe
he turned around with me angry
and he told me I know what I do you do not get
you get me I have everything arranged
maybe 10-15 more minutes and
we go around and did not wear the
belt
and it really started to bother me more and
I tell you why you do not wear the belt
for real
but the car turned to see me
with his face truly distorted and
he tells me I told you that I know what I do
I do not like to wear the belt
security
and if a traffic stops me a police
I have everything arranged
I’m going to take out of my portfolio 100 200 300
pesos 500 pesos whatever I’m going to give
that money to the police and he is going to go
happy and I’m going to be happy
at that time after not seeing much
time to my friend
I knew something had broken in
that friendship relationship
he had taken a path
ideological different from mine
this way of thinking
from my friend
where do you think with money in the portfolio
you can violate any type of law
as a transit law can be done
almost anything
as long as you have the money
enough to pay it
obviously it is an unpleasant idea but
it’s a very real idea that is embedded
in a good part of society
mexicana in the structure of society
Mexico and the social model and
governmental model I am a journalist
I am an activist too and it has touched me
know the structures of corruption in
different parts of the country
I have had to know violations to
deep human rights
I’ve had to interview many
people who have disappeared their
children his brothers who have deprived them
of freedom to family members who have
murdered
to your loved ones
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doing an analysis of all this
traveling around the country I realized
analyzing the structures of corruption
what
since for many years in this
country there is a bigger problem than
the corruption
for me she is the mother of all
problems in mexico
since I have memory I am 38 years old
fulfilled the corruption is the main
problem that Mexicans have lived
even more than the problem of
violence
if you are going to stand in line to buy
tortillas to the supermarket etc. never
missing one person who knows another and
that you let her get in front of you
of you
when small acts are never lacking
of corruption
those that seem insignificant but
with whom we live daily
for example
when we look for a lever so that
is our son in a school or
when we look for a lever so that we
give a contract in government
for example when one of one of the
family is an architect or a friend is
architect makes a work over material
on cement leftover sand and instead of
return it stays with him
and there are so many things so many acts of
corruption that we commit day to day
that we are made by bad people
it is simply important that we understand
that this model of corruption is the
model in which we were born and we have
we have learned to live
has gotten so much corruption in
our way of life that has
become the way of life itself in
we have become the system
of life
Corruption is so big in Mexico
that I
the good could compare it with a
kind of electricity grid of the country
imagine the network that this country has
all the cables that go through the
streets on the roads through the fields
and they are all interconnected
such a way that you cut a
cable is going to cause an effect because it’s
practically everything connected
and nothing else in Mexico but in the world
that is the problem in which we
we face
but corruption is also true if
well it is true it is in us as
society
is very strong in our governments
we see how a mayor enters to govern
with a relatively modest life and
it comes out with 568 houses it comes out with four
ranches with stables
I ‘m not describing anyone for
supposed in particular comes out with accounts
abroad
and every time the fortunes with which
come out politicians are older now already
we are talking about accounts in andorra
in bahamas in panama
in Europe
and it’s public money
the corruption
as we have it currently overwhelmed
We are doing great harm to the
Mexicans
damage for example
Corruption due to corruption
is that the streets are full of potholes
the budget is correct
regularly but they use materials from
low quality
and reincarnate again
and they spend again
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and again see potholes in the following
rains
and it’s a cycle that repeats
and that causes our
cars that strike out on our tires
that the suspensions are milled and
it starts to cost a lot of money to
everyone else because someone delivered
a public works contract that should not
have delivered because it was for the
compadre for the friend for the brother-in-law or
simply because there was a car for
medium three benefited four or
five people and 50 thousand were harmed
60 thousand 100 thousand people
in health services for corruption
for those rigged contracts
do not get enough medicines to
people
how many times do we not hear that there is not
the supply of sufficient medicines
imagine the people with a
chronic disease
that the medicine does not reach them
for corruption
it’s because we have this problem of
violence that we are living in the
country this problem and violence so serious
untied
that has claimed hundreds of thousands of
deaths, disappearances
illegal deprivations of freedom
kidnapping
you see it as nayaritas
have suffered this I know that they have
suffered because I take the pulse to
nayarit for several years
but not only the Nayarites also
the Sinaloans, the Sonorans, the
chihuahua now those in the city of
Mexico are suffering from those of
Quintana roo Michoacán
warrior or say to veracruz
Tamaulipas new lion now we count
what are the cities that are not
violent
it’s because of corruption and I’m going to give
very clear examples of why the
problem of violence is not for the
violence per se but for corruption
you here in nayarit
they had a prosecutor
that is now detained USA charged by
drug trafficking
Tamaulipas we have two ex-governors
accused of drug trafficking
two ex-governors twelve years of people
linked to crime
in morelos we just knew that the
organized crime financed the campaign
10 political candidates for presidents
Municipalities that asked in return for
criminals in addition to a relationship
forced with them
they asked for the public work that was
delivered and a monthly income from the treasury
of the money that should go to the people
in sinaloa where I am from
a former local deputy is also
detained in the USA accused of links with
the crime
that is the reality that we are living
and is what what we know the
disappearance of the 43 young people
Yocsina normalistas for is also
linked to political corruption
how we can reduce violence
if we do not eradicate corruption in the
policy if we do not make conscience like
society
for as some Colombians say what
first we have to do to
reduce corruption in government
is not to allow the corrupt to arrive
to the government
because the one who steals the one who pays for
get to steal
Colombian politicians say
and I think it ‘s very true in Mexico
we can apply practically the same
criterion
that is a harsh reality that we are
seeing the country and I as a journalist as
activist that I have traveled to
practically the whole country know the
stories and knowing the systems of
corruption
I feel obligated to tell him
but I also feel obligated
to tell them something else
although the picture is tremendous it is
very hard
there is also hope says eduardo
bojórquez of Mexican transparency that
the great news for Mexicans is
that corruption is not in our DNA
it’s true Mexicans are no more
corrupt by genetics than a Norwegian nor
that a Brazilian neither a Spanish nor
that an Englishman does not
what I have to do is change
our behavior systems
because corruption is a great system
is this great electrical network that is in
the country we have to stop doing what
same to have different results
so
and corruption in Mexico can be
attacked if you if we
we decided to do it if you the day of
tomorrow they decide today what I’m going to do
corrupt today I’m not going to bite the
today I will not take any
lever today I will not take something that does not
I deserve today I will not put my hand
to benefit neither my compadre nor my
carnal or my friend from elementary school today
I will not ask for a lot
today, on the contrary, I am going to demand
transparency authorities
I’m going to organize with my neighbors and I’m going
to ask me to explain how much money
spent in this work
and if the money was spent well and if not
I’m going to do something to counteract them
we must unite as groups of neighbors
as groups of professionals like
even as activists so that this
change and we can do it
because there are always people who are
doing things differently
I am part of a civil association that
it’s called sinaloa initiative in this
office we are trying to fight
against the court against corruption
we are fighting against corruption and
we want many more more people
join these to these battles here in
nayarit in guadalajara in michoacán
Jaime, there are already people who are doing it
but we need more hands more hands
decided to stand up
of the bed and say today I will not commit
no act of corruption thank you very much
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