Attorney General's Office receives recognition as a character Magdalena 2011 and presented his lecture on ethics and values

The Attorney General's Office, Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado, received today in the city of Santa Marta (Magdalena) the award for "Person of the Year 2011" award from the Magdalena Journal today, the result of the consultation on this important day of the Colombian Caribbean to 2,700 citizens.

According to the survey conducted for this important day, 78.5% of respondents have a favorable image of the highest representative of the Attorney General.
 
In the event of delivery of this award, Dr. Ordóñez Maldonado expressed his gratitude for this honor and called "undeserved" This recognition by society of Magdalena. In that connection, he highlighted that "what matters is the effort articulating society and the state in order to advance to see a lighthouse in the night that we are in the principles and values."

In his speech before more than 350 people, Attorney General made occasional reflections on the values ​​crisis facing society and the enormous efforts to combat emerging behaviors that violate the principles and values ​​such as the phenomenon of corruption .

For the head of the supervisory organ is permeated society for conduct contrary to the values ​​and principles and therefore facing social consequences such as corruption.
 
"Values ​​are not just opinions, are able to cultivate realities experienced people" and in that sense, values ​​are seen in the behaviors and promote natural stage in the family where the principles are practiced.

Echoing a line from Gilbert Keith Chesterton, the prosecutor noted that "those who speak against the family does not know what they do, they know not what to pieces."

In his speech, said the new concept of state has been built according to international standards and to serve the market "does not recognize local particularities, social, political and economic matters are the standardizations enforced, the state then it has The purpose and general interest, the common good or the protection of the person or dignity, today the state is to serve the market. "

The Attorney said the feeling of Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, who noted that "there is no society, there are individuals and the market is the death of the common good without God, without father or family is an orphan society, of course in Latin America have a hope and a reserve than in any other latitude exists and this is the family. "

The call of the Director of Public Prosecutions is to erect an ethical Colombia based on the principles and values ​​that are built into the family, the society.