This article analyses Argentinian democracy in its corruption scheme, with everything it has common — and distinguishes — with other democratic regimes in Latin America and Europe. The answers lead us to think of the present from old and new categories. Against the backdrop of this discussion, there are some theoretical and practical nodes with which we face the democratic problem rooted in corruption. Since the establishment of democracy in 1983, two different forms of corruption can be distinguished at the power summit. The ten-year government of Carlos Menem and the governments of Mr and Mrs Kirchner, who remained in power for 12 years. Of these two different experiences, we will place emphasis on this system of institutional corruption, which we call a factually face-to-face state.