Up to $160 million paid by "cheaters" in unprecedented fraud at the University of Antioquia

What happened last Friday, April 10, during the entrance exam for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Antioquia has been a national scandal not only because of the sophistication with which 40 doctors caught tried to cheat the test - for which even very high sums would have been paid - but also because it exposed a crisis of ethics and values in one of the most respected professions in Colombia and precisely the one most called upon to defend values and professionalism. At 8:15 a.m. that Friday, the house of cards that 40 applicants to the test - with which they sought to obtain one of the spots in the 45 medico-surgical specialties of the Alma Máter - had built began to crumble when at that hour...