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Liciting the illicit. Reflections on the CCSS-FISCHEL and ICE-ALCATEL cases

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Artavia Araya, Fernando

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Universidad de Costa Rica

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Regarding the CCSS-Fischel and ICE-Alcatel skandals, the author reflects on the socio-institutional conditions that may facilitate the corruption in the state buyings of goods and services to the private sector. The article is intended to answer three fundamental questions: Who made the main decisions? How were those decisions made? To whom were they accounted for? It is here concluded that a little group of politicians and high level public officers made the main decisions on the destiny of millionaire contracts, and that they did it with discrecional powers and in an arbitrarity way, avoiding the existing mechanisms of institutional and legal control in Costa Rica.
A partir de los escandalosos casos Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS)-Fischel e Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE)-Alcatel, se reflexiona sobre las condiciones socio-institucionales que pueden facilitar la corrupción en las compras estatales de bienes y servicios al sector privado. Se intenta responder a tres preguntas centrales: ¿quiénes tomaron las principales decisiones?, ¿cómo decidieron? y ¿ante quiénes respondían por esas decisiones? Se concluye que un pequeño grupo de políticos y altos jerarcas públicos tomaron las decisiones más importantes sobre el destino de los multimillonarios contratos, y ello con gran poder discrecional y de la forma más arbitraria, y burlando o evadiendo los mecanismos de control existentes en Costa Rica.

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Corruption, Contracts, Public functions, Private sector, Health, Telecommunications, Costa Rica, Corrupción, Contratos, Función pública, Sector privado, Salud, Telecomunicaciones

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