there are usually many people who
when they arrive this scenario are
well known to the public
then they have no need to
presentation but I think it would require
I rather do the opposite
I would need to present myself with you
little so you understand why I’m
in front of you my name is daniel
I covered I am an activist political scientist
during 2012
I gave a leap of confidence in a jump
towards basically public life to
through activism and I learned
A lot of things
during that course not then
particularly the thing that I learned
more is that I have a huge passion for
politics and it’s very important now
I would like to emphasize that when
I talk about politics I ‘m not saying that
I’m president, I’m not saying that
want to be municipal president I’m not
saying he wants to be a deputy
saying that politics as a one
tool that we citizens have
that we have the people to solve
everyday problems
that’s what I ‘m really passionate about and
that what I would like to convey to you
today to you
basically what counts in this
process in which I in activism is
that a process is necessary a leap to
empty a leap to emptiness in the sense
in which you have to start trusting
in the other people to start
achieve things to start achieving
changes and that if you do not ‘jump to the
empty ‘you’re basically staying
in the nullity you are staying in the
reluctance you are staying in
basically in the place where
we are not to begin to change
we have to start trusting if
no no i am i am not very photogenic
then either to pass expected me
these people would like first to start
with a brief social experiment
I would like everyone to please close the
eyes to everyone
please if in the eyes I can not see
a lot with this light but I’m going to try
see it now since it has all eyes
Closed
do the favor of raising your hand to
those who believe in
staff in your individual area are
able to respect the law
the law does not have to say anything do not open
eyes for favors this exercise is
important not to open the eyes of
Agree please get off at
the hand does not open the eyes yet and
now I want to raise their hand
people who believe that the person
side is able to respect the law
please do not open your eyes in agreement
now you can lower your hand again and
good
I would like to start then by showing you
costing them first a graph is a
graphic that basically summarizes the
history of the perception index of
corruption that we have in Mexico the
yellow line represents the
rating that we have in the index
of perception of corruption while
that the orange line is the line that
represents the ranking ie the place
that Mexico has regarding the
other countries
in terms of level of corruption if
they realize the yellow line is a
line that does not follow the line there all
yellow is a line that remains
relatively static many many
difference according to the time while
that the orange line is a line that
will grow proportionally
as time passes one would believe that
this is a good thing but it is everything
contrary in fact the fact that the
orange line grow means that
mexico every time has a worse place a
positioning regarding the combat to
corruption and that is explained
basically because we have not changed in
qualification at the same time as others
countries and have made progress as soon as
to the subject
now the subject does not stay any more in
the statistics because the
statistics tend to be very cold
no attempt has been made to summarize the reality
as for the number and many times that
number does not necessarily tell us
what it does tell us are the acts of
corruption that we see every day in
the television that we see them in the
newspaper that we see them and swarm by
all sides and that however for not
we see that it really demands that these
these scandals generate a change
meaningful of what kind of
scandals I’m talking to you
I’m sure if you see in this picture
you know what I mean the famous
white house that this image has
become an iconic image all
world knows perfectly what
represents this room the relationship that
has the president with a contractor
of the state of mexico and the way in
what this photo and other other photos and a
particular reportage meant in
Regarding the loss of confidence that
we had the executive then also
there are other cases not only stays in
the white house talking about the
disappearance of 43 normal teachers who
could again summarize the story
but everyone knows what’s going
it meant a major crisis to
from the second year of this sexennium
from which many but many think
that simply the current government does not
will recover
we also have other cases of
cynical governors and governors who
they do not have any kind of
fill many who are fugitives
rather particularly one that is
fugitive and that is an evil that is
reproducing in across the country
we all know that the problem of
public debt is extremely strong
particularly at the state level and nobody
he knows how to stop this and
finally I’m going to put one last
image that I think is very symptomatic
what are the consequences of the
so we stop corruption but not before
what can happen if suddenly
this one let corruption
pullen or that is just the gasolinazo
the gasolinazo although it was a consequence
of the energy reform is implied and
reflects a lot of bad
decisions that were taken years
before this came and how this
directly impact on the pocket of
the Mexicans and a lot of people were left
extremely angry and it was extremely
frustrated by the now the big question
behind all this is because if
we have such clear problems of
corruption because we have scandals and
we are so so
we see her so alive in our life
public because we have not been able to
stop that is basically a
question that we asked ourselves in the
organization where I am working
currently called option a is a
organization that has as purpose
fight corruption and include
people within the combat to the
corruption through the
citizen participation and the question
is why we have not been able to
curb corruption
we come to an answer that is
simple but not by simple means that
lack of forcefulness and is that the
people do not believe that corruption affects
because we believe that the one that the
corruption is foreign to us
what do I mean by this we divide the
corruption in two types is not
running this is we divide the
corruption in two types
On the one hand, there is the corruption of
them that can be represented to
through this cartoon and then
we also have another kind of
corruption than the corruption of
Now I’m going to explain a
little here I want to go with this the
corruption of them is this corruption
carried out by the economic elites and
policies to seize power and
stay in power through
illegal acts
On the other hand we also have the
corruption of us that are the
actions that we make in our
act everyday and they clearly are
illegal acts but rather the
we understand how the way in which
we interact with the government and many
Sometimes they go through making excuses like
cunning we believe we want cunning by
be corrupt because we believe that we are
turning the law
we think it’s a kind of revenge
social towards people making them the
great abusers of political power and
many times we end up justifying
this corruption
now the sum of these two corruption
is the corruption of them and the
corruption of us
ends by giving a byproduct a product
national that represents a lot in the
way in which these two corruptions
they live that is just corruption
of all
this is a very good example of the
corruption of all because it is
basically where they mix the
corruption of them corruption
we go
a result that clearly is
undesirable not electoral democracy
that we are every time we think more
like this act in which some buy
votes
others sell their vote and in the end
we ended up having a cochinero who
nobody wants to have is basically like
a kind of that is the synthesis
that is generated behind from behind
these two dynamics and that clearly
for none of us is undesirable
now there are three consequences behind
are these three types of corruption
the first consequence is our idea
of the public
if our idea of corruption is
fragmented also the public is
fragmented this means what means
what belongs to everyone
those that ideally should be
a space for participation
it really is a space from which we
we fold and we stay in our
individual field
this is very important because then
happens in scandals happening arts and
there is no one out there who is there
to stop it the following consequence
is distrust again the
distrust can also be given
at different levels
distrust of the government 19 by
hundred of Mexicans with barely
trust the government the rest
they simply do not trust the government
81 percent towards the towards the rule
we did a survey we did a
survey in which it turned out that 42 by
hundred of Mexicans associate the law
with something bad while 21 percent
he does it with something good this means
that people do not consider the law to be
a kind of neutral ground in the
which we can base our
trust and start acting in a
public environment and finally the third
and the last link is the distrust
towards the other through the survey
that we did respect that 92 percent
of Mexicans trusts his family and
if we compare this percentage of
trust that we have in the family
towards other types of social actors and
be our neighbors our teachers
government institutions
confidence percentage that we have toward
they are extremely old
This implies that
in general the Mexican is a person
that tends to distrust that tends not to
want to take this leap into the void that I
I was speaking to you at the beginning of this
talk now I’m going to give you a little
been very cynical until now
is not telling you like things like that
they are not giving much hope but
I can tell the gray hair sorry
sorry
still missing a third consequence
what is the politics of the self
the politics of cynicism refers to
this act well if the policy is the
art of making collective decisions
then the politics of the self that
excess transferred to the part in which
the political and economic elites that
they are dedicated to profit with this space that
is everyone use that power that
they have nothing else to watch over their
own interests and then ends up happening
what we have now again does not have
that being like that does not have to be like that
This is more or less what he did
I would like to tell you exactly if
there are these kinds of effects is because
there are people who have not yet given the
quantum leap begin to change this
actually I can tell you several
examples of how we can start
to reverse this type of process the
first of them is Guatemala in 2015
many of you will surely be
aware started a process of
dismissal towards the president of
then otto pérez molina for thanks
that civil society pushed that
there was an international commission
that will watch for justice and that there
that punish the corrupt and in the end
Otto Pérez Molina Fuere was punished at
román ya román is a case in which
in 2013 2014 a series of a several
groups of activists managed to prevent
a protected natural area outside
invaded by a corporation
who wanted to exploit the area to
establish a mining these people
they did now they did all the
desmadre yy manage to stop the finally
we also have Indonesian cases in the
which
the kpk that is like commission
anti-corruption of indonesia
he began to change his attitudes
he began to change his actions and started
to fight corruption through
put the political actors more
corrupt from indonesia to prison and to
final
well rather at the beginning and at the end
the reason why he started doing
this is precisely because it started
see people the kpk started to have
prestige began to depend
completely what I told people
to the point that people went out to
defend it
So what do these have in common?
three acts
basically there here’s
organization and collective action
there is a group of people there is a group of
in this case it is represented by fish there
there are many times that work with each other
there are many times that it is organized in
some way and they manage to find the
way to reverse the matter now not
I’m telling you absolutely nothing
new agreement I’m not finding the
black thread I’m not saying that I
I’m selling the solution to the
problems I’m not saying that it’s
I have the magic formula to achieve
this what I can tell you is that
mexico has had systematically
since many years organized ways
to be able to respond to acts of
corruption and that’s pretty much at
I invite you to do
he has to get involved in politics
you have to go out and participate
because the policy is yours
what kind of acts do I refer to
we have seen a lot particularly the
last years
I’m talking about demonstrations of
entrepreneurs usually businessmen
no they are not seen as these entities so
participatory at least on the way
however public last year
we had a very demonstration
important on the part of entrepreneurs from
the coparmex to demand a penal system
effective and effective anti-corruption
could fight corruption
we also had in recent years
a very important effort on the part of
civil organizations to push a
law
three of three so he could justly
find effective ways to order
that politicians are held accountable
we also had citizen candidacies
we had citizen candidacies
people who were never in
political parties and they achieved
organize though
a small community a process of
reversal of the problem of
corruption and finally this I think that
it’s something that I would also like
tell them not all the actions or not
it is necessary to enter directly the
policy to make it so that it can be
make a political change too
there is another kind of activism and activism
social is to those people who go out and
they want to help other people there
people who build houses for others
people
if they do that yes indeed is what they
like if you like to reforest if you
like not to stay if they like to attend
people in nursing homes and like another type
of activism that also adds up what
I want to tell you is the space there is the
space that is outside is space
public and it’s a space that you
has to start to appropriate and measure
in which we appropriate ourselves more
of public space so then they
I can assure you that they will start
reverse things now at the beginning of
this one of this talk I ask you to
you who of you believe that in
the personal can tend to have the
ability to respect the law and on the other
side I also asked them who believes
that the person next door has the
ability to respect the law
curiously this I did not expect
they ended up saying that they believe that the
next door is better able to respect the law
that oneself
I honestly do not know how to explain this
how to interpret that result is you
I can say that you trust a lot
in others but maybe they do not trust
much in oneself and I think that that is
maybe I should change but good
At least I’m glad to know that there is
there are trust networks here that
exceeds in the individual and I think that
just the invitation then
would be for you to take that leap to
emptiness gets involved in public life
and recover that space that belongs to everyone
thank you very much
and
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