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BEVERATI, Martina.
Convention against Corruption standards. The Anti-Corruption Bureau acts within the scope of the
centralized and decentralized national public administration, companies, corporations, and any other
public or private entity with state ownership or having, as main source of income, the state.
Though the O.A. has these targets, they are not fully applied by the actual Argentine Justice System.
Initiatives are being proposed to improve this.
Joo Augusto Ribeiro Nardes, a Brazilian politician proposed to create a network, which
links all control agencies in Latin America and the Caribbean, to allow fast exchange of
information, not only to detect acts of corruption, but to prevent them. 5 If this is nailed down, and
the Anti-Corruption Bureau was linked, it would mean an improvement on the O.A.s work. So, the
O.A.s goals would be better applied and it would show that the government wants transparency.
If we want our reality to change, we all have to work together. One way is to support political
parties which have anticorruption aims. Confronting this issue by denouncing acts of corruption
would make pressure on the State to solve it, and eventually, it will raise awareness. The more
people who know about the topic, the easier it will be to get a solution. But raising awareness isnt
enough: uneducated people, who usually tend to be poor, are easily deceived. Education gives us
the tools to fully understand whats put in front of us each day. Without education, people may be
effortlessly convinced into voting for corrupt leaders in exchange of economic benefits.
Above all, Argentina needs the commitment of authorities who will build an effective
justice system for corruption cases, and policies that promote transparency and social involvement
in the issue.