Local Patrimonialism
August 27, 2018
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
Puebla has been one of the entities most hurt by government corruption in recent years. Even when the problems in the state and municipal administration have been made known, the last periods have promoted patrimonialism to extraordinary levels. The damage to the common good of the poblanos will extend for several generations and, every day, it seems irreparable. The social pathologies in Puebla are reaching historical levels. Like a virus they will spread everywhere and nobody can say they are invulnerable. The equivalence with Veracruz, Michoacán and Guerrero is a thing of the past, the local oligarchy wants - in these criminalistic indicators - to approach Tamaulipas, Sinaloa or Chihuahua.
The Puebla entity was placed at the level of the worst governments according to the social, political and economic indicators of various study institutions. The political alternation was an authoritarian regression to the cacique model that kidnaps the public administration for personal benefit. The debate that indicated in the six years of the PAN severe questions to the public debt, transparency, concessions and government programs, leaves no room for doubt when observing the behavior of the local legislative power. The approval of public accounts in various entities, especially municipal, institutionalized discretion and authoritarianism as a way of life in our state.
The most shameful case was that of the municipalities. Presidents who had committed real looting of their communities and to whom the Audit Body - now Superior Audit of the State - investigated by means of two technical files that indicated their administrative responsibility, were acquitted by decree. Overnight - literally - their public accounts were approved, the "municipaladas" were ignored. Characters who were removed from processes of verification and accountability were called to form candidacies by all political parties as long as they supported the neo-vilacamacism; Even the independent way was invited to fragment the vote and avoid an opposition coalition that put at risk the official candidacy for the state government.
The route of electoral fraud is parallel to the route of administrative fraud. Caciques, businessmen, political parties, clerics, independents, academics and other entities subject to public responsibility, were cajoled with the maximist Mephistopheleic "divide and conquer". The National Regeneration Movement was also and is being infiltrated with this strategy that will end up empowering Morenovallismo. The neoavilacamachismo was replicated holographically in the 217 municipalities and other entities subject to accountability, at a very high power.
The State Audit and Inspection Bodies are institutions destined to fail as long as there is no division of powers and local legislators blindly approve public accounts without a little awareness of the damage they cause to society. What is the meaning of the technical effort and the constant audit? What model, then, of transparency and accountability?
The municipality is a reserve of civility and democracy. In Puebla they have received the greatest patrimonial damage in their history. Same as public and decentralized agencies. Outgoing local legislators will be responsible for the abandonment and decomposition of the social fabric. The lack of public works, the correct distribution of income, the deception of social programs and patrimonialism, will trigger the conflict.
The Puebla entity was placed at the level of the worst governments according to the social, political and economic indicators of various study institutions. The political alternation was an authoritarian regression to the cacique model that kidnaps the public administration for personal benefit. The debate that indicated in the six years of the PAN severe questions to the public debt, transparency, concessions and government programs, leaves no room for doubt when observing the behavior of the local legislative power. The approval of public accounts in various entities, especially municipal, institutionalized discretion and authoritarianism as a way of life in our state.
The most shameful case was that of the municipalities. Presidents who had committed real looting of their communities and to whom the Audit Body - now Superior Audit of the State - investigated by means of two technical files that indicated their administrative responsibility, were acquitted by decree. Overnight - literally - their public accounts were approved, the "municipaladas" were ignored. Characters who were removed from processes of verification and accountability were called to form candidacies by all political parties as long as they supported the neo-vilacamacism; Even the independent way was invited to fragment the vote and avoid an opposition coalition that put at risk the official candidacy for the state government.
The route of electoral fraud is parallel to the route of administrative fraud. Caciques, businessmen, political parties, clerics, independents, academics and other entities subject to public responsibility, were cajoled with the maximist Mephistopheleic "divide and conquer". The National Regeneration Movement was also and is being infiltrated with this strategy that will end up empowering Morenovallismo. The neoavilacamachismo was replicated holographically in the 217 municipalities and other entities subject to accountability, at a very high power.
The State Audit and Inspection Bodies are institutions destined to fail as long as there is no division of powers and local legislators blindly approve public accounts without a little awareness of the damage they cause to society. What is the meaning of the technical effort and the constant audit? What model, then, of transparency and accountability?
The municipality is a reserve of civility and democracy. In Puebla they have received the greatest patrimonial damage in their history. Same as public and decentralized agencies. Outgoing local legislators will be responsible for the abandonment and decomposition of the social fabric. The lack of public works, the correct distribution of income, the deception of social programs and patrimonialism, will trigger the conflict.
