How Corrupt is Corruption?
Corruption Defined Corruption is defined by the Webster dictionary as wrongdoing by those in a special position of trust. The term is commonly applied to self-benefiting conduct by public officials and others dedicated to public service.[1] Statistics In Colombia a resent phone survey showed one of every twenty respondents ranks corruption as the country’s most pressing issue.[2] Yet some feel that Colombia’s corruption is just a way of life. An anonymous political official stated, “It is very evident that the favoritism, nepotism, and graft that characterize Latin American public and private relations cannot be judged or called corrupt by ‘cultural outsiders.’ The ‘insider,’ knows that this system is really ‘the law of reciprocal favors,’ which “foreshadows and reinforces culture-wide rationality in Latin America.” From another perspective a human rights spokesman for Human Rights Now stated, “The Colombian administration is reputed not to be particularly corrupt in the more flagrant
