Corruption & Misconduct

To the ceaseless seekers of truth, the quiet questioners in a world often too eager to provide answers, and to all those who sense the undercurrents beneath the surface of everyday events. This book is dedicated to those who refuse to accept the presented narrative without scrutiny, who understand that history is not always as it is written, and that the shadows can hold more than just darkness. It is for the discerning mind, the restless spirit, and the unwavering belief that understanding the world, in all its complexity, is a noble and necessary pursuit.

In Plain Sight is a quiet examination of how harm becomes ordinary inside systems that present themselves as lawful, professional, and necessary. Rather than arguing by comparison or ideology, the book traces recurring patterns: how legality replaces moral judgment, how bureaucracy diffuses responsibility, how language creates distance, and how trust erodes when explanation arrives faster than grief. Moving carefully through history, contemporary case studies, and moral reflection, it asks not who is to blame, but what happens to conscience when power is insulated from consequence.

Today’s fact-checkers assure us that they analyze speech without fear or favor and promise to hold powerful politicians and pundits to account when they lie to the public. It turns out that they themselves are often among the biggest liars in our larger political dialogue. Presented with claims or facts that are inconvenient for the dominant media narrative, fact-checkers slant their rulings.

In Corrupt by Design, Boris Kriger overturns the conventional wisdom that corruption is a problem of bad people in good systems. Drawing on game theory, evolutionary biology, institutional economics, and a formally proved mathematical framework, he argues that corruption is the predictable product of badly designed institutions — a rational response to the gap between what rules demand and what people need. The bribe is not a moral failure. It is a structural symptom.

Una evasión de 600 mil millones de pesos: una cifra cuarenta veces superior al desfalco de Segalmex. "Todos los negocios jugosos que se hacen en el país llevan el visto bueno del presidente". Con esta frase, Andrés Manuel López Obrador pretendía sentar las bases de una nueva moral pública; sin embargo —y en este libro se demuestra— esa sentencia se convirtió en el mayor indicio de una traición sistémica. Mientras el gobierno presumía el fin del robo de combustible en los ductos, una red de corrupción mucho más sofisticada y letal perforaba las finanzas del Estado: el huachicol fiscal.