In electoral times the accusations begin, among them that of Abdo, who affirms that the Secretary of Money Laundering is currently an employee of Cartes. This should not be a surprising thing for anyone, it happens with the former president of the Central Bank, who is now Director of Banco de Cartes, or the candidate for President, former Minister of Finance, and former advisory member of the Central Bank, Santiago Peña, who also receives monthly money for the work they supposedly do in the Cartes offices.
This story of revolving doors, of working for the State for a while, having all the information and contacts; and then being hired by private actors that have to be controlled by those public institutions does a lot of damage to democracy and to Paraguayan society as a whole; and also the most important thing is that it weakens the State in its central role as arbiter of circumstances of this type. As someone who was with an important responsibility in a position, he later ends up creating companies where he has seen the possibility of enriching himself due to the lack of capacity of the State in that activity.
That happened with the former president of the National Cement Industry, who is now the head of the cement company that Cartes is building, which went from 23 companies to 63 during five years as President of the Republic.
The Public Thing business is really amazing in terms of quantities and opportunities, and as long as we do not have rules that are met, that someone who has been working in a public office for a while cannot perform tasks in the private sector related to that activity, These things are not going to change.
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The entrance surprises that are not surprising was first published in The Independent.
