Opinions

This article first appeared in El Mostrador on March 18, 2022. When things do not surprise us, it is because we are used to seeing them, because they have become a daily occurrence and we see them as normal events Read More

This article first appeared in La Tercera on February 17, 2022. Breaking Bad, Ozark or Narcos are some of the series that we can watch via streaming and that immerses us in the world of drug trafficking and money laundering. But far Read More

  This article first appeared on La Tercera on Febraury 03, 2022. The commitment of companies to make public their financial affairs and their ESG (environmental, social, and governance) impacts is -as never before- a transcendental step towards a global and Read More

  This article first appeared on El Mostrador on January 22, 2022. Two years after the start of the pandemic, we can be sure that the world is not the same as we knew it. We have had to adapt Read More

  This article first appeared on La Tercera on December 22, 2021. The cost of corruption is so high that we cannot ignore it. Its scope is so broad and deep that if we do not put a stop to Read More

  This article first appeared on El Mostrador on November 30, 2021. It was 2015 and the front pages of the newspapers were reporting cases of irregular financing of politics, involving tax crimes and laws tailored to certain companies. These Read More

This article first appeared in El País on July 9, 2021. The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has signed this Friday an ambitious executive order – 72 initiatives by 12 federal agencies – whose ultimate goal is to Read More

  This article first appeared on El Mercurio Legal on October 14, 2021. Once again, unfair administration appears on the front pages of Chilean newspapers. In 2018 it debuted as a new criminal type that came to pay a historical Read More

  This article first appeared on El Mostrador on September 28, 2021. It has become recurrent to hear or read the word “embezzlement” these days. Etymologically, it is formed with Latin roots, and means the “action and effect of using Read More

  This article first appeared in El Mostrador on August 26, 2021. That old idea that Chile was not a corrupt country has not only been left behind but has also been buried. With time we have realized that corruption Read More

  This article first appeared in El Mostrador on July 25, 2021. A good reputation can take years to build and only seconds to destroy. Under this premise, I would like to highlight how important it is for companies to safeguard Read More

This article first appeared in La Tercera on July 20, 2021. Corruption often occurs right under our noses, but we do not realize it, because we do not see it or we are not aware that something irregular is happening. In Read More

  This article first appeared in El Mercurio Legal  on April 28, 2021. A couple of weeks ago we witnessed the judicial resolution of the Corpesca case. Finally, we were able to know the decision of the court that convicted Read More

This article first appeared in La Tercera on May 24, 2021. In his more than 100 days as President of the United States, Joe Biden has promoted ambitious measures to address the health, economic and political crisis in his country, Read More

  A un mes del caso Corpesca, se consolida la importancia de contar con Programas de Compliance o Modelos de Prevención de Delitos “vivos”, donde toda actividad o control ligado a Compliance sea parte del funcionamiento conocido y cotidiano de Read More

  This article first appeared in Vive Compliance on May 17, 2021. It was the first month of 2020. From Latin America we watched with shock as the coronavirus wreaked havoc in European and Asian countries, affecting not only their health Read More

  This article first appeared in El Mostrador on April 28, 2021. We recently learned the sentence of the Third Oral Court for the Corpesca case, where the former parliamentarians Jaime Orpis and Marta Isasi were convicted for the crimes of Read More

Corruption is one of the world’s major problems, because it breeds distrust, uncertainty and injustice, exacerbates social inequality, affects the daily lives of ordinary citizens, reduces the opportunities of the poorest and jeopardizes democracy itself. Less-developed economies are the most Read More

This article first appeared in Diario Financiero on April 14, 2021. The opportunities offered by the advisory services offered to the parent companies of companies present in the region led BH Compliance to open an office in Miami after years of Read More

  This article first appeared in La Tercera on March 30, 2021. A new electoral process is approaching, a rather atypical one, which will be held in an unprecedented manner in two days and in which we will also elect Read More

This article first appeared in El Mostrador on March 25, 2021. Corruption is one of the major problems afflicting the world, because it brings with it distrust, uncertainty and injustice, because it deepens social inequality, affects the daily lives of Read More

This article first appeared in La Tercera on February 18, 2021. A few days ago, Transparency International released the Corruption Perceptions Index 2020, which shows something that the entity had already warned last April: the coronavirus pandemic has not only Read More

This article first appeared in La Tercera on January 29, 2021. A few days ago, after the raid on the municipality of Recoleta, the corruption case involving the company Itelecom and several municipalities in the country resurfaced. Although this case has Read More

  This article first appeared on El Mostrador on January 16, 2021. After a complicated year in economic and health matters, a 2021 full of challenges is looming. Many of them were left dormant in the face of the emergency, but Read More

  This article first appeared on La Tercera on December 28, 2020. As every end of the year, it is time to take stock, to review the good, the bad and what was left pending. And perhaps, this time the Read More

  This article first appeared on El Mostrador on December 15, 2020. In May, we learned about the “LED Lights” case, in which it was discovered that the company Itelecom had been awarding bids for the replacement of these lights in Read More

  This article first appeared on La Tercera  on November 20, 2020. Trust is a basic value in human relationships. To gain it costs time and facts; to lose it, it only takes a second. And this is what is Read More

  This article first appeared on La Tercera on October 28, 2020. Crisis represents an opportunity and today, when we are going through one of the greatest crises in history, is when we must make the necessary decisions and changes Read More

  This article first appeared on El Mostrador on October 17, 2020. Life in society has had to adapt to the new conditions imposed by the COVID-19 crisis. And precisely the speed of change requires new legislation and speed of action Read More

  This article first appeared on La Tercera on October 02, 2020. The pandemic has radically altered the economy of all countries, without exception. In Chile, the crisis has translated into an increase in unemployment, which has reached 12.9%, according Read More

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

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

  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