Topic: Political Corruption in Latin America
Country: Moldova
Delegate Name: Matthew Russell
School: Williamston High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Moldova position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
For many years there has been a great deal of corruption in Latin America. There are many factors that need to be taken into consideration when assessing the route of this corruption. While many would blame the United States’ imperialism on the region that's not entirely accurate. There are many things to take into account such as political corruption that has been allowed because of corporate influence due to a lack of oversight by the federal government. At least part of this is due to a lack of infrastructure, companies were able to build this infrastructure and seize control of it making the government bend to their will. Organized crime plays perhaps the biggest role and the corruption we see in Latin America today. Because the highly profitable drug cartels are able to easily buyout many members of government there exists a climate which almost welcomes political corruption. This is made even easier by the economic instability in the region, in part due to the poor oversight of government officials who are corrupt, creating a cycle that feeds into itself. Although The Republic of Moldova is not a part of Latin America Moldova has faced similar issues. There is a large problem with organized crime. While there is an estimated 200-250 million dollars in drugs sold from Moldova, the main problem is that Moldova is a major transit spot for drug and human trafficking. Moldova experiences a problem with human trafficking. Along with this there was also a missing 1 billion dollars, due to fraudulent bank activities. However because Moldova has such a strong government, Moldova was successfully able to apprehend those responsible for the missing billion dollars and also has strong law enforcement for able to make the intersection for criminal transit quite hard to operate in. The Republic of Moldova believes that countries should not be required in any way to send aid to Latin America and that some intervention would be violation of national sovereignty. Moldova believes that the task of constructing a strong and stable government lies heavily on the shoulders of the Latin American countries themselves as well as their allies. The Republic of Moldova believes that stronger government needs to be put in place by the Latin American countries, put that things such as financial aid should only be given by countries who can afford it and are willing to.
