The episode involving the Argentine Football Association (AFA) has all the ingredients of a mafia-style management and highlights a key fact: in Argentina, a lot is stolen, and the amounts are staggering. According to the Argentine News Agency, in any other country, people would have resigned for much less. In Argentina, any individual linked to an institution steals millions of dollars and doesn't even think of resigning. This is mafia-style management: they don't resign because they have political backing, friendly judges, and a huge extortion apparatus to intimidate whistleblowers. This is the infamous Chiqui Tapia, his second-in-command Pablo Toviggino, or Javier Faroni, whose company represents the AFA abroad and has been accused because much of the money that passes through it ends up in the personal accounts of AFA leaders. When someone denounces it, they face judicial retaliation. It happened to me with the Civic Coalition leader, Matías Yofe, who has Elisa Carrió as a lawyer. A fifth part in Pilar, valued at 20 million dollars, includes horse stables, helicopters, a car collection, an Italian football club. All of it comes from a football association that is a disaster, where the president's club has an advantage and champions are invented. Chiqui Tapia did not become president of the AFA because of his talents; he had to marry Moyano's daughter beforehand for doors to start opening for him. Everything is excessive, bizarre, and unpunished. Like in mafia movies. There is always a politician behind these disasters, and in this case, as in many, it is Sergio Massa. Toviggino and Faroni come from Massa's inner circle, who is the most unpunished politician in Argentina. There are no judges who investigate him; despite being an open secret, the acts of corruption during his disastrous tenure as Minister of Economy. He is the real mafia boss who knows all the tricks to emerge unscathed. A huge network of politicians, judges, prosecutors, and media protects him. He is a professional of darkness who never falls. This AFA scandal is in the world press, and what is striking is that no one resigns. The corrupt have more power than those who denounce them; that is why impunity is enormous. It takes years to combat this scourge, but it must be started. No country is considered serious with these levels of corruption, and these episodes go against investments because these mechanisms undermine legal security. Ordering a country has combating corruption as a key chapter. The successive Peronist governments normalized theft. While many people have economic problems, there are mafias that enrich themselves, and what is worse, they enjoy showing their wealth and their impunity.
