reproduce here a note posted on Facebook by Jorge Cornick in answering that is to my mind a story that did poorly informed journalist Mercedes Aguero on the hiring of a building by the ARESEP, four months after Jorge output Board of the Authority.
We must do something with the press in this country. And the Association of Journalists? And the editors in charge?
Doña Mercedes tries to make chocolate without cocoa
by Jorge Cornick on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 7:34 pm
can not make chocolate without cocoa, or you can create a scandal where nothing is hidden or distorted. Never fails, however, who try.
journalist's reporting Mercedes Agüero have caused concern among some people that know me and have led to others, that's all I know, to condemn me without hearing my story, as anyone can verify that you visit the Facebook page The Nation.
However, the "complaints" of The Nation journalist and Agüero are made of smoke and nothing.
A conflict of interest is set when who works for an institution must make a decision that affects both the institution and the person making the decision, and when it is also what is best for that person could not be what is best for the institution.
This situation is not ever set during my time at the Aresep regarding the rental of the building is scheduled to travel soon to that institution. De followed explained why.
As a member of the Board of ARESEP was my duty to approve the annual budget of the institution along with their plans. Thus, it was my responsibility to approve, along with my fellow directors, the proposal to move the institution into a new building and the corresponding budget. So far my intervention in this matter.
From this point, the administration did its job, without any intervention by the Board. Thus began the process of finding a suitable property, became a public invitation for submission of tenders, which were evaluated by an internal working group was obtained the approval of the Comptroller General of the Republic for a direct hire, and finally, the Controller General, in its discretion and without any action by the Board, assigned the lease real estate fund Multipark owner.
These facts are not disputed and it explicitly recognizes the nation in reporting that "As a manager Cornick approved the budget to finance the leasing of a property, but did not participate in the selection of the building, since this procedure was in charge of administration and not the board. "
should add a detail which is not necessarily apparent when reading Dona Mercedes article: All this happened about four months after I had given up the Board of the Aresep. So clear: when the lease was assigned to Multipark, I was not part of the Board of Aresep.
Dona Mercedes
What does not seem to understand is that, given these facts, it sets up a conflict of interest or anything like it. Simply does not I've never been in a situation where, as director of the Aresep, had to make a decision affecting or Multipark or its investors.
But besides showing some confusion about the concept of conflict interest, Dona Mercedes reverses the logic of investigative journalism when he says "The fact that this document does not warrant that did not influence." Things are upside down: if the journalist had strong evidence to suggest that I acted improperly, he would have in their hands material to a complaint. As it is not as recognized, his story is nothing but a poor attempt to make chocolate without cocoa.
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