Corruption in Ecuador

Name: Juan Carlos Letechi Morán.

Hook: Corruption is the greatest threat to governments, politics, business and
democracy and our country, Ecuador, has not escaped this phenomenon.
Background: Deterioration of ethical and moral values, low index of political culture and
education in general, and the scarce citizen participation in Ecuadorian public life that
serves as a control has made politicians steal shamelessly in this country.

Thesis statement:
Corruption is the act through which a public official violates the rules of the prevailing
legal system, to favor particular or group interests in exchange for a benefit or reward
for himself or for third parties, synonymous with abuse, disorder, bribery, seduction,
depravity, bribery, bribery or embezzlement.

Topic sentence 1:
The duties and responsibilities of Ecuadorians and Ecuadorians, without prejudice to
others provided in the Constitution and the law:
- Administer honestly and with unrestricted attachment to the law
public heritage, and denounce and combat acts of corruption
-Assume public functions as a service to the collectivity and accountability to society and
authority, according to the law.
-Exercise the profession or trade subject to ethics.

Topic sentence 2:
The holders of the entities of the Transparency and Social Control Function will form an
instance of coordination, and will elect from among them, each year, the President or
President of the Function.
-Formulate public policies of transparency, control, accountability, promotion of citizen
participation and prevention and fight against corruption.
-To articulate the formulation of the national anti-corruption plan.

Topic sentence 3:
In the exercise of public service is prohibited, in addition to what the law determines:
-To perform more than one public office simultaneously, with the exception of university
teaching, provided that their schedule allows it.
- Nepotism.
-The actions of discrimination of any kind.

Conclusion:
The strengthening of civil society is a necessary step to strengthen the democratic
system. Timing is a determining factor for all governments operate in a transparent
manner, accounting for their actions at all hierarchical levels and providing the people
with unrestricted information. Political parties must democratize, open their doors to
new human talent, thereby renewing lost leadership.
The governors must show willingness to punish, exemplary, the officials involved in acts
of corruption. There must be full awareness that political corruption is generating the
right conditions for other types of corruption to proliferate, so that it is configured as a
distorting element of the emerging democracies of our continent.