Punishing all the children at home, for the mischief of some, or that the misbehavior of the students in the educational centers motivates to punish all those in the course or campus, even when those who did not participate are punished for any fault, it is reprehensible.

In the interior of the country, a generalization of punishment that is becoming dangerous is late payment for goods and services provided in previous years. It is true that there were corruption circles in public procurement in various governments and entities, in order to illegally favor some suppliers, even with falsified receipt records, to users who may have also been beneficiaries of preferential payments. Under the accusation that there are no reliable audits, not only against fraudsters, which should be proven, but also against all suppliers, they give up. Looking not to pay?

It is evident that there is no money to immediately pay everything that is pending, but this cannot justify the disqualification of the supplier’s claim. There are legal and economic ways to serve honest suppliers and must be done accordingly. Audit teams must be established to verify compliance with prescribed deadlines. Cases where checks cannot be carried out must be investigated.

There should be no forgiveness or forgetfulness for fraudulent bidders, with false documents or other practices, but the generalization of “no payments from previous years” is not permissible, even when modest expressions are used for this purpose.

Those who have the option to the Presidency of the Republic must also make a statement about the delay in payment to suppliers, because by November 2023, when the new Government takes office, it is impossible to correct all cases of suppliers’ claims.

Corruption and rings or circles of power have always existed. What’s on TV House of Cards, Netflix’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated series for more than a decade, since February 2013, about United States politicians and officials and their relationships with businessmen and emissaries of other governments, crimes and incitement to the coercion of sexual relations, because there are no limits to the search for what is desired, the same or a similar or larger volume is given in several areas of power in the world.

Sometimes there are mass purges, cases published in 2022 in the People’s Republic of China, of internal decisions and international affairs with multiple illegalities, some under investigation and others not yet, which would be sanctioned there, but in the affected countries Crime – the case of Ecuador, for example – in trials and investigations it is labeled as forms of “political persecution” in order to try to achieve impunity.

There were chains of corruption, bribery, fraud and money laundering in sport – FIFA case, 2015, onwards. In June 2023, an investigation into the organization of the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 was opened. (O)