Source: Zenit
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, JUNE 23, 2010 (Zenit.org).- There are a multitude of roots that give rise to the ugly reality of corruption, but the current spread of the phenomenon is perhaps unparalleled in history, participants in an international seminar have suggested.
The seminar gathered in Ecuador in June Church and civil leaders from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The Latin American bishops' council hosted the five-day conference.
"Although corruption has existed in different moments of the continent's history, we could say that we are witnessing a 'geometric' progression in the recent period," a final statement from the seminar asserts. "We see it in the growth of organized drug trafficking networks and frequently in electoral contests, especially in re-election processes that deteriorate the institutions of democracy."
"We see old and new models of corruption, among them those related to privatizations, public debt, the purchase of armaments, within the framework of resistance to implementing international conventions against corruption," participants added.
Article provided by ZENIT News Agency.