Authorities: to be and to seem

  This article first appeared on La Tercera on August 17, 2020. How many use power to favor themselves? How many really believe they have more rights than the rest? Surely many more than we imagine or the cases we Read More

The “winners” and the cost to society

  This article first appeared on El Mostrador on August 01, 2020. For years in Chile there have existed the “winners”, those who manage to circumvent the system to obtain benefits, skip a step or evade payments, who then boast about Read More

Disguised as essential

  This article first appeared on La Tercera on July 13, 2020. The pandemic has meant that many companies have had to reinvent themselves to continue operating, adapting to teleworking, e-commerce, and digitalization. It has not been easy for anyone Read More

The world after the pandemic

  This article first appeared on El Mostrador on June 29, 2020. Even in the worst of times, corruption does not rest. The pandemic brought with it much more than an unprecedented health and economic crisis, it also brought radical changes Read More

The importance of the anonymous whistleblower

  This article first appeared on La Tercera on June 23, 2020. Many of the corruption cases that have come to public light have been known thanks to confidential information provided by “whistleblowers” who have witnessed irregularities. And, precisely, the Read More

Lobbying in the midst of the crisis

  This article first appeared in La Tercera on June 01, 2020. Covid-19 came to alter our lives in every way. The plans, strategies, and objectives of many vanished in the blink of an eye and had to be reoriented to Read More

Bribery… closer than we think.

This article first appeared in El Mostrador on May 16, 2020. Whenever I mention the word bribery in front of friends, relatives, or company boards, they look at me with horror. They imagine -somewhat incredulously- that it is a crime far Read More

Corruption is not free from the coronavirus either

  This article first appeared in La Tercera on April 20, 2020. For more than a month we have been living during a pandemic that has made us revisit our priorities and determine the next steps to take. Companies have Read More

Personal Information: A fair balance

  This article first appeared in La Segunda on April 17, 2020. Covid-19 has changed life as we know it. States have taken actions – preventive and reactive – to deal with the virus, many of them through technology, that Read More