And the Chamber of Commerce has stepped into the dialogue over government procurement malpractice. One week ago, it fired off a blunt mandate to Prime Minister John Briceño, demanding immediate electronic handcuffs on the government's accounting software.

To kill the institutional culture of sub-ten-thousand-dollar invoice splitting, the Chamber is demanding ten mandatory digital firewalls-including automatic software blocks on same-day invoice avalanches and duplicate billings.

BCCI President Giacomo Sanchez urges the PM that there is absolutely "no reason to wait" for long investigations. The Chamber says these fixes can and must be coded into the system immediately.

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