How to subvert a democracy
“I am not saying I am excepting a bribe. What I am saying is the these diamonds on the table are making me uncomfortable.”
One of the many memorable quotes from Schindler’s lost reminds me that bribery is not something that is often seen outside the shadows.
An exception is the case of Vladimiro Montesinos Torres, who, in his capacity as Peru’s Interior Minister, cemented neophyte President Alberto Fujimori’s rule during the 1990’s through an elaborate web of bribes across Peru’s political class, transactions that Montesinos meticulously documented and videotaped.
Turns out that members of Peru’s television media commanded, typically, ten times the money that their counterparts in the judiciary or Congress did.