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Colombia's Attorney General's Office is being devoured by corruption

The massive deterioration of the Attorney General Office reflects the deep degradation of the country's traditional political class.

Colombia's Attorney General's Office is being devoured by corruption
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In order for corruption to develop in a country without any major resistance from the highest levels of the State and politics, the State's judicial investigative bodies must be grabbed by the same criminal associations that steal from it.

For the country to be devoured by corruption, it has to devour justice.

In Colombia, this process took place, on a large scale, in the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, an institution created by the 1991 Constitution. Under the excuse of gaining instruments against crime, large international agencies advised it in the fight against drug trafficking and pumped in it with considerable resources.