So much has been done about the role played by democracy in the States, already in the course of the fourth half of the 21st century, that it is necessary to cover the analysis of what is involved in the fight against corruption, particularly in emerging countries and all those in which, thanks to the manipulation of its different components and powers, they have managed to create what is known as autocracy.

For this, we must appreciate that a democracy of low quality will be directly related to the rule of law and its validity in the mandates of populist leaders whose decisions land on the simile of caudillismo.

When comparing the indices of insecurity, or failing that, the absence of citizen security, and in terms of defense, when referring to internal and external security, it is worrisome that the majority of States that suffer from a quality democracy, have the most high rates in terms of common crime, organized crime, and crimes that threaten the faith and public administration and against life; what accounts for the acts of corruption of those holding public office, and have the task of making decisions as operators of justice and administration in their sectional governments, take force once in each act, there is presence, of bribes and bribes.

This ascending spiral, by dispensing with an effective control scheme, encompasses most of the levels of the system, where the most affected people end up being the beneficiaries of the mandate or those who aspire to receive justice; both full of vices and unwrapped in an environment of poor quality democracy.

In much of the Latin American countries, the process of democratization has led, under different approaches, to estimate the degree of corruption, once governance is achieved, either after military dictatorships or prolonged internal wars such as the Colombian conflict. , in figures that ultimately conclude in the same dynamics of the process. In other words, combating corruption could occur by establishing policies of transparency, improvement of administrative capacity and consolidation of individual security; that when seen in perspective, it becomes an inter-institutional and transdisciplinary work that in the structure of the States results in the optimization of processes from the Executive to the smallest decentralized autonomous government.

Hence, in Ecuador, no matter how much effort is made, as long as there is no probity in public authorities and political leaders, it will be very difficult to reduce the impacts caused by corruption.

Public sectors such as oil, health, education, defense, internal security, communications, agriculture, livestock, the environment and more have been seriously affected in their budgets by corruption; because when you do not have metrics to define it, you can see it in your EBITA (profit margin before taxes and interest) if it is private or you offer products and services; or in the case of being a current expenditure entity, moreover, since part of the budget will be aimed at determining a large percentage that is far from reality. The Public Works Hiring Service, has defined that there is a damage to the State of almost 1500 million dollars for the opportunity cost, to be used in more than 60 percent of the offers by state entities direct contracting ; what facilitates the flow of resources to third parties not contemplated in the act of contracting services or acquisitions, in other words, the black hand of corruption appears again.