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Month: November 2019

Civic Engagement/Democratic Governance/Transparency & Accountability

As Corruption Turns: Looking for Paradise

November 9, 2019May 16, 2020 Gerardo Berthin Leave a comment

As I thought the topic of this article, I knew I wanted to be a reflection about where our world is in anti-corruption.  But I wanted to frame it differently, so, I chose a dramatic title, using (slightly edited) and combining the names of two popular soap operas.  As the World Turns was an American Television soap opera that aired for 54 consecutive years and Looking for Paradise/Buscando el Paraiso was a Mexican telenovela aired in 1993 by Televisa. Soap operas usually focus on situations in a town or a country, and they are frequently characterized by melodrama.  A key element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode, so the audience waits expectantly to see what happens to the story and the characters.  Soap opera storylines run concurrently, intersect and lead into further developments. An individual episode of a soap opera will generally switch between several different concurrent narrative threads that may at times interconnect and affect one another or may run entirely independent of each other.  What does this have to do with anti-corruption?

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Civic Engagement/Democratic Governance/Transparency & Accountability

Mientras la Corrupción Gira: Buscando el Paraíso

November 9, 2019May 16, 2020 Gerardo Berthin Leave a comment

Mientras pensaba en el tema de este artículo, sabía que quería que sea una reflexión sobre dónde está el mundo en anticorrupción. Quería enmarcarlo de manera diferente, así que elegí un título dramático, usando (ligeramente editado) y combinando los nombres de dos telenovelas populares. As the World Turns/Mientras Gira el Mundo fue una telenovela en los EE.UU. que se trasmitió durante 54 años consecutivos y Buscando el Paraíso fue una telenovela mexicana transmitida en 1993 por Televisa. Las telenovelas generalmente tratan de situaciones en una ciudad o país, y se caracterizan por el melodrama. Un elemento clave que define la telenovela es su naturaleza abierta y de serie, con historias que abarcan varios episodios. Cada episodio termina con una promesa de que la historia continuará en otro episodio, por lo que la audiencia espera ver expectante qué sucede con la historia y los personajes. Las varias historias de telenovelas ocurren simultáneamente, se cruzan y expanden. Un episodio individual de las telenovelas generalmente transcurre y cambia entre hilos de narrativas diferentes y concurrentes que pueden interactuar entre sí o ser totalmente independientes de una a otra. ¿Qué tiene esto que ver con la anticorrupción?

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