Don’t Trash Colombia’s Democracy
On Dec. 9, I was giving a talk at City Hall on the need to fight corruption when, suddenly, my cellphone alerted me to this message: Colombia’s inspector general had decided to remove me from my job as mayor of the nation’s capital and to bar me from holding office for 15 years.
My alleged sin: bungling a project to bring trash collection — run by an oligopoly of private contractors — under direct city management.
Startled, I told the audience what I had just learned. They were irate; the country’s minister of justice and a United Nations representative in Colombia, seated at the head table with me, both hugged me in a show of solidarity.… Seguir leyendo »