OPINION: – Pandemic, An opportubity to plunder

The pandemic is not an excuse to spend without accountability. In fact, it is when it is most transparent to be, since the normal order of purchases and expenses in general have been disrupted. But instead of transparency, we increasingly notice more obscurantism, less information. No one wants to talk about the expenses that have been made or are about to be done.

The Comptroller’s Office also does not fulfill its role vis-à-vis the citizens, nor does it even rule on what are clearly irregularities. We are blind, with officials who haunt us because, far from fulfilling their duty, what they want is to fulfill themselves. They make us suspicious of their actions, because they have decided to keep public information to themselves. And it is that we are in the presence of inexperienced politicians in the public administration, whose only interest seems to be the negotiated ones. They use funds, large funds, as if they were private.

Our leaders must know that we are aware that resources are limited, and for that very reason they are obliged to tell us what they spend them on. Start doing it, because if you want governance for the next four years, you urgently need a tiller.LA PRENSA, Jul. 15