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Abstract: In Latin America, huge amounts of corruption have been developed, including
middle and upper management of society; comprising the powers of the State: executive,
legislative and judicial that supposedly control each other; covering civilians and military
personnel of different hierarchies; to the mixture of individuals with public officials who
work nationally and internationally. However, ordinary people often imagine that they are
isolated cases of immorality or degenerate behavior on the part of individuals inside and
outside institutions, probably driven by dysfunctional family or school training frameworks.
It is believed that corruption is an eminently ethical case that can be corrected with some
adjustments, without the need to completely transform society (capitalist). The thesis that is
going to be defended here is that corruption is structural to capitalism, and that makes it not
only a matter of ethics but also of politics. In fact, the continuity between ethics and politics
is not new, at least in Western culture.