Profesora de la UNAM, Irma E. Sandoval, le responde a Josefina Vázquez Mota (16 Marzo 2012, "Expediente Noticias" con Jorge Armando Rocha)

"Lamentables los prejuicios sobre la UNAM de alguien que aspira a gobernar el país" dice en entrevista la especialista profesora e investigadora universitaria Irma Eréndira Sandoval, con Jorge Armando Rocha en MVS.

http://www.expedientenoticias.com/profesora-de-la-unam-irma-sandoval-le-responde-a-josefina-video_206

Mexico Politics: A Requiem for Public Control in Mexico (March 14th, 2012. Americas-Mexico Blog)

In the uphill climb that is combating transnational criminal organizations, Mexico faces the need to reform many of its institutions, from the penal system to the banking system, among others. But behind reforms and projects that are aimed at both the drug war and other problems in Mexico, there are political and economic interests jockeying for influence. This opinion piece by Mexico's leading expert on corruption, Irma Erendira Sandoval, outlines an important (and perhaps pernicious) development in how these reforms and projects will come to pass, with a special focus on the omnipotent presence of private business.

La Jornada: By Irma Eréndira Sandoval. "The ominous proposal of the Green Party to privatize jails and prisons has become part of the rentier and predatory logic of public services that has left the national economy in ruin over the last 30 years. The horrible daily reality that is lived in penitentiaries, which was cruelly manifested in the recent prison break and massacre in Apodaca, Nuevo León, isn’t a result of bad public stewardship. Rather, it is the fault of the federal and local governments that have abdicated the administration of these facilities and left them to the control of private actors and powerful factions. It demonstrates that private prisons tend to be more violent and corrupt than public ones and that they are operated with poorly trained personnel with low salaries and a high turnover rate. These factors lead to more abuses of the prisoners’ most basic human rights.

This type of “initiative” has found its utmost expression in the Law of Public-Private Associations (LAPP is its Spanish acronym), signed by Felipe Calderon on January 16th. This law is part of the neoliberal agenda that has governed the country through corrupt and inefficient privatizations— a type of governance that Carlos Salinas used in the 1990s to give power to his friends, monopolize markets, and destroy the competency and competitiveness of the economy. Today the LAPP demonstrates that, beyond any temporary election season disputes, the PRI and PAN have shared an agenda of national mismanagement.

The LAPP constitutes the absolute subordination of the public interest to the directives of financial intermediaries and means the institutionalization of debt, illegality and corruption. The reform establishes long-term contracts (up to 50 years or more) with private national and international companies that...

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"Réquiem a lo público" (La Jornada, 14 Marzo, 2012)

A la memoria de mi tío Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Ramírez, guerrerense del mundo.

La ominosa propuesta del Partido Verde Ecologista de privatizar cárceles y prisiones se inserta en la lógica rentista y depredadora de lo público que ha dejado desde hace 30 años la economía nacional en la ruina. La situación de horror que cotidianamente se vive en los centros penitenciarios y que en días pasados se manifestó con suma crueldad en la cárcel de Apodaca, Nuevo León, no se debe a su gestión pública, sino precisamente a que los gobiernos federal y locales han abdicado a la rectoría estatal en favor de actores privados y poderes fácticos. Está demostrado, además, que las prisiones privadas tienden a ser más violentas y corruptas que las públicas, operan con personal mal capacitado, de bajos salarios y con una alta rotación, lo que hace que el trato hacia los reos muestre continuos abusos a sus derechos humanos más básicos.

Este tipo de iniciativas hoy encuentran su máxima expresión en la Ley de Asociaciones Público Privadas (LAPP), firmada por Felipe Calderón el pasado 16 de enero. Esta ley implica la consolidación del proyecto neoliberal que ha gobernado el país mediante corruptas e ineficientes privatizaciones que desde los años 90 Carlos Salinas usó para dar poder a amigos, monopolizar mercados y destruir la competencia y la competitividad de la economía. Hoy la LAPP demuestra que, más allá de los diferendos electorales coyunturales, los gobiernos de PRI y PAN han compartido un solo proyecto de desgobierno nacional.

La LAPP constituye la subordinación absoluta del interés público a las directrices de los intermediarios financieros e implica la institucionalización de la deuda, la ilegalidad y la corrupción. La reforma permite...

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