Wimpiness in justice

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The latest catchword is "blandengueria" or "wimpiness", as Cardinal Nicolas Lopez de Rodriguez described the way the justice system deals with white and blue-collar crime, and more controversially with corruption and drug trafficking. Hoy newspaper's editorial today says the problem is that when there is a law but it is not applied, it is worse than not having the law. "The lack of authority to fight crime, especially corruption, is a defect, "wimpiness" according to Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, that is becoming too costly for our country. The editorial writer says that the fortunes that are impossible to justify are multipliers of poverty and that impunity is a repugnant ingredient. "To have laws and to lack authority and the will to apply them is the worse thing that can happen to a country," concludes the opinion piece.

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