United nations-. The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, today denounced at the United Nations Security Council that the main obstacle to prosperity, development and peace is corruption in all its expressions.
Opening the rotating presidency of Mexico to the main executive body of the United Nations, the president attacked the harmful actions of unscrupulous transnational corporations that have multiplied their wealth and absurdity at the expense of plundering poor countries and have adopted corruption as a way of life.
He considered that the outdated neoliberal economic model that seeks to turn losses into profits, and encourages the looting of natural resources so that they become vultures of the people, is the cause of corruption, and demanded the courts to prosecute and punish those who do not have. The ability of conscience and become millionaires by stealing from the treasury.
He emphasized that it is corruption to hide illegal money in tax havens, or to make usury with suspicious acts of obtaining or managing it, while it is aware of its illegal source, without losing its supposed dignity.
He noted that corruption is the main cause of social inequality, poverty, violence, migration and social conflict.
He said that never before has this wealth been accumulated in the hands of a few people because of the suffering of millions of people and its origin is corruption, and the privatization of what belongs to everyone and should not have an owner.
He cited as an example of the social inequality between people and nations due to corruption, the case of vaccines against Covid-19 in which private pharmaceutical companies have extraordinarily increased their fortunes at the expense of people’s health.
He noted that these companies have 94 percent of those biopharmaceuticals under their control, while the UN’s Kovacs program is barely six percent, a painful and resounding failure.
This simple fact, he said, can lead us to recognize that generosity and common sense in today’s world have been replaced by selfishness and private ambition, and the desire for profit, and we pass from civilization to barbarism, alienation, and back to afflictions. humanity.
He warned that if we did not reverse these trends, we would not be able to solve any of the other problems in the world.
He declared that corruption in the world is being condemned and combated, and that the great fight against inequality, poverty and all evils arising from these tragedies will take place at the same time.
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