Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA) and the Central American Technological University (Unitec) expressed concern on Saturday about a possible modification to the agreement to create the Support Mission Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Maccih), an entity promoted by the OAS and whose mandate is about to expire.
The CNA indicated that he sees with “extreme concern” that the Honduran Government and the Organization of American States (OAS) propose “a modification” to the Maccih agreement since that may represent “the opportunity that the corrupt expect to weaken this body.”
The OAS and the Government of Honduras started yesterday in Washington the formal dialogues on the second stage of the mission, whose mandate expires in January if the Central American country does not agree to renew it.
The Honduran entity said that to strengthen the Maccih it is necessary to create instruments such as Effective Collaboration Law, regulations that would serve to disrupt the networks of corruption, and that laws that have served “the corrupt to shield themselves” be repealed.
They request renewal of the Maccih without modification of the agreement
Civil society has demanded that the agreement of the Maccih, subscribed in January 2016, be renewed without any modification, so the CNA considers that “to give deaf ears to this request is to ignore a legitimate call that can mean the loss of important advances in the fight against corruption that was previously something unthinkable.”
He added that, with the support of the Maccih, the Public Ministry of Honduras He has been able to accuse the courts of “characters who were previously untouchables, which shows their contributions to strengthening the justice system.”
The anti-corruption entity requires that the dialogue between the Honduran Government and the OAS have “a transparent agenda, that every point discussed is informed to the Honduran people” and that any agreement is in view of all sectors.
He emphasized that the OAS mission, which was installed in April 2016 in Tegucigalpa, “was not born as a sign of the State of wanting to fight corruption, but, as a response to the demand of society that was grouped in the march of the torches“.
“The corrupt take advantage of the passivity of a people they have always made fun of, but who showed them that when they turn on the lights of the protest they are able to bring them to their knees,” the CNA.
Unitec joins the clamor for the Maccih
The Central American Technological University joined the “sensible voices“that demand the renewal of the Maccih, since Honduras requires” for a longer time a mechanism with sufficient powers to implement the fight against corruption and impunity successfully. “
He emphasized that the future of Honduras and its people “are at stake” and that “stopping the Maccih’s work or weakening its functions means ignoring the fervent desire of a country for a promising future for its people.”
Honduras is experiencing “extremely difficult moments that require joining forces to face other major obstacles and challenges on the road to development“he added.
Unitec believes that the current situation in the country “is deeply unsatisfactory.”
The situation “condemns us to continue living in unacceptable levels of poverty; to continue traveling the path of inequality and a economic growth that it will never be enough to bring economic and social welfare to all, “he added.
As an academy, says the university, “we cannot close our eyes to this calamity” and said in favor of “effective, systematic and permanent mechanisms that unite us on the road to a better country.”
He urged the Hondurans not to “turn your back on a country that demands a stop to waste and the diversion of public resources, which requires transparent processes in the award of contracts, which awaits legal proceedings in accordance with the law, as well as officials, deputies, judges, magistrates, prosecutors and other justice operators with a foolproof vocation in favor of law and justice. “
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