CORRUPTION IN LATIN AMERICA: SOCIOCULTURAL ANALISIS

Neoliberal reforms of the 1990s - early 2000s in Latin America led not to a decrease, but to an increase in corruption. Attempts to reproduce the institutions and practices developed by a different civilization, which in their "native" socio-cultural environment led to a decrease in the level of corruption, do not produce a similar effect in Latin America. This has led to the understanding that the same institutions operate differently in different cultural environments. However, practical recommendations usually tend to be more or less explicit advice to third world countries to change their culture. According to the author of the article, a way out of this situation can be found only through formulating their own model of modernization of the political system, which is organic for Latin American societies, and takes into account their civilizational features. Development of such a model in the region has been carried out in recent decades by regimes of both left and right political orientation.