OPINION: Impunity returns to the throne

In the government of Ricardo Martinelli, irregular acts and corruption were notorious. The evidence abounds: verified overpricing, confessed bribes, money in banks without justification, unauthorized interceptions. The list of irregularities is long and the evidence tangible.

It is natural that those affected, united by a cause, now want to annul their cases on the grounds that they were “armed.” And, indeed, the pieces that make up a criminal organization must be put together, like a puzzle. This is the only way to understand how a corruption scheme that seeks to hide its traces works. The investigations were made, but now, in a plot for which the prosecutor in charge has lent himself – and it would not be surprising if the lenders are government figures as well, since they are not very different from today’s defendants -, Prosecutors who deciphered the puzzle of the organization that was put together in the government years ago have been removed from the files. Separating them is a dangerous precedent, since it is enough to file a simple complaint for the prosecutor – well commanded – to separate each prosecutor from their cases. Years of investigation will go to the pipe so that his majesty, impunity, returns to the throne. – LA PRENSA, Nov. 26.