The political and economic situation in many countries in Latin American is nowadays incredibly similar to how it was hundreds of years ago. Government officials manipulate laws and regulations and abuse their power to enrich themselves without providing the citizens with a stable and thriving nation. This current extortion of the system and lack of nationalism is what brought me to write about these two documents. Since I grew up in Latin America, I have always witnessed how people enrich themselves by becoming a political representative and how the citizens do not react since there is not a sense of belonging to a nation. Both of these documents highlight the problems that countries like Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela encountered with their political parties’ styles, and I strongly believe that if this is not exposed Latin America will repeat the same mistakes that were made over 200 years ago. The first document that will be reviewed, “Bureaucratic Capitalism: Profiting from Office”, was written by two agents who were sent to the New World to act like “spies” and inform the King about the corruption that was taking place in Latin America. This report was intended to be presented to the King of Spain and his advisors in Europe to understand how their political representatives were handling all official orders and collection of tribute in Peru. The first point that the authors make is that the corregidores, who were the local officials sent to Latin America to represent their monarchs, were taking advantage of the power that was delegated to them. These corregidores were profiting from the collection of tribute they were supposed to charge the Indians per orders of the King. As stated on the first phrase of the document, “Corregidores use many methods to enrich themselves at the expense of the Indians, and we shall start with the collection of tribute” (88). The corregidores were clearly not doing this collection in an honest way and were making a personal profit out of it. They had to bribe the judges to cover up their fraud. This takes us to the second point in this document, which is that local officials failed to obey their obligations and responsibilities. These people who were sent to Latin America to represent a monarchy quickly realized that if they avoided their responsibility of collecting tribute they would see this financially reflected on their personal revenue. The royal treasury officials found a way to go around this and appointe