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>>(2) It seems that in some international study, a while ago, Bolivia appeared on the third place, World-wide, in the list of the most corrupt countries. A popular joke says that they paid a bribe to avoid being placed on the first place...
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>Hilmar,
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>Well here we have corruption too, but it is well hidden behind a cloak of political contributions and bureaucratic mazes and a media that exposes only what is to their own advantage.
The unfortunate thing here is that it happened more than once that cases of corruption (or other crimes for that matter) are well-known, but nothing is done about it.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
