Tamal tolimense (Tolima)

 

Corruption.

Corruption is one of the most pressing social problems facing Colombia. This is evident not only in the government but also in the practice of many multinational companies.

 

One of the most remembered cases of corruption was the financing of paramilitary groups by banana companies (mainly the US company Chiquita Banana Brands), which occurred between 1996 and 2004.

 

Chiquita Brands established illegal relationships with paramilitary groups in order to illegally control the labor movement: basically, the formation of unions and the right to social protest were prohibited through the terror infused by the armed groups

 

 

Opinion.

 

My opinion in the face of corruption is that it is a serious problem since it is not only stealing people's time but also stealing the country's progress. The subsequent investigations that were carried out around this problem showed that the US multinational had given the Colombian paramilitaries more than 1.7 million dollars.

 

A case in Colombia is the case interbolsa was intervened by the National Government. One of the main reasons why the process began was the debt that the company had with the Spanish bank BBVA for a sum of 20,000 million pesos (more than six million dollars).

 

 

Among the other defendants is Rodrigo Jaramillo, the main brain of the case, who was sentenced in 2017 to seven years of house arrest, for the crimes of fraudulent manipulation and unfair administration.