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Competition "Nightmare bureaucracy in Mexico" best story wins!
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by patgarcia | September 26, 2008 at 04:45 pm
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Hector Suarez playing a politician who speaks much says nothing
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Hector Suarez One of Mexico's Best Comedians photo by Luis Manuel Guaida
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I remember a famous Mexican comedian Hector Suarez playing the sketch of a bureaucratic public official asking for "your grandma's death certificate and your dog's rabies vaccine certificate" to get a driver's license!
Update January 10 2009
Cecilia Velazquez won the contest having to do the most absurd tramits to get her son's life saving medicine each month.
The Mexican government launched a competition Thursday to find the worst examples of inefficiency within the bureaucratic machine. The initiative is asking people to submit the most outrageous examples of inefficiency and corruption they have experienced when dealing with officials and government agencies in Mexico.
The effort is being overseen by la Secretaría de la Función Pública, and the "winners" will be announced in December. According to the daily newspaper La Jornada, foreigners as well as Mexicans can submit their tales of exasperation and dissatisfaction with red tape in the country.
Promotional material for the competition (above) features two men in a cluttered office. One man -- a bureaucrat -- is behind a desk and holding up his hands as if to say, "What do you want me to do about it?" The other man, laden with a stack of bound paperwork, looks on in frustration.
The message accompanying the image: "Denounce the worst procedure -- the most useless bureaucratic procedure."
Mexico is listed as the 72nd-most-corrupt country in the world, according to Transparency International's 2008 index.
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at 16:48 on September 26th, 2008
patgarcia, this is hilarious! Did they do this so that they can then fix the problems after?
at 17:00 on September 26th, 2008
President Calderon made it public himself and the purpose of this is to expose corruption in order stop government employees from asking bribes to " make it faster". Thanks for the flag!
at 21:19 on September 26th, 2008
Oh interesting - thanks!
at 00:07 on September 27th, 2008
patgarcia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Great post and video. I like the picture as well. Niger had a similar program in the late 1970, yet there the President went out in disguise and tried to bribe Government officers for all sorts of things, those that took the bribe ended up in jail in the middle of the dessert and those that reported the incident where okay until the next time some one tried to bribe them or they as for bribes and had the miss fortune to have civil officer checking up on them. Now, however corruption is back since the President Kunche died in 1986.
at 20:51 on September 27th, 2008
Thanks Pashen, I'm glad you liked the post and video and thanks for the comment, I tried to get Hector Suarez playing the corrupted bureaucrat but it was quite long ago, I could only get him playing the politician. I hope our president stays alive, his life is in danger, many may not like him but never before in Mexican History had a president fought drug dealing and corruption so hard.Half of Mexico hates him, he won by a very close range.
at 14:29 on September 29th, 2008
patgarcia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 14:30 on September 29th, 2008
Be sure to let us know about the winning story.
at 05:48 on September 30th, 2008
Thanks! I will let you know the winner.