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 Some audios of a lawyer were leaked, and when his cell phone was seized, many chats were found, which dirty the entire political caste, both left and right and even the highest positions of the judiciary. The media focus on the exposed case, but it is clear that he is not the only lawyer pulling the strings behind the scenes.

The whole system is rotten, and I believe that it is not enough to put more bureaucratic layers as the media tries to convey, because that would be like leaving the cat guarding the butcher shop. I believe that since corruption is intimately linked to power, and therefore to the State, it is not enough to vote for the opposition, which is also tainted. The best thing to do is directly stop financing them: evade or avoid taxes and use currencies that are not issued by the Central Bank, for example BTC or MXR.