Truemors
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!
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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