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 awaits 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 to each other. What does this have to do with anti-corruption?
