The use of a minor ordinance to modify the scope of another regulation with greater social impact is called a twist.
A vericueto is a place that is very difficult to access or difficult to navigate . The concept can be used in a physical or symbolic sense, linking to the corners or recesses that are not easily seen.
For example: "There are lawyers who are always looking for legal loopholes to free criminals" , "The authorities must fumigate all the loopholes in the city to prevent the plague from continuing to expand" , "We are trapped in a bureaucratic loophole and no one can help us." provides a solution."
With respect to its etymology, we are facing a particular case of lack of information to deduce it: on the one hand, the most important dictionaries barely give vague clues about the origin of the term, which can be perceived through the way in which they elaborate its definition; On the other hand, language scholars cannot find a precise and definitive source, and that is why different possible paths are opened.
Legal twist
It is common for the notion of vericueto to be used in the legal field. We speak of twists and turns when someone looks for or finds some rule or ordinance of little importance to modify the scope of another law of greater social importance.
Suppose that, by law, it is prohibited for a government to carry out public works without calling for bids. A ruler, however, discovers a legal twist : regulations from a century ago allow public works to be carried out directly when "the well-being of the nation is at risk." The leader, in this way, alludes to said norm to continue with his initiative.
Its incidence
Legal twists and turns are resources that generally make the difference between the success and failure of large projects. Many times, the result of months or years of work is threatened by issues that cannot be modified overnight , since they respond to complex legal structures . However, this complexity entails fissures, elements that have not been adequately reviewed over the years, and that contradict the most significant ones, those recent changes that block the making of certain decisions.
Finding and knowing how to take advantage of a legal twist is not a virtue that everyone possesses: it is not enough to have studied Law , but it requires special intuition, an unusual insight. On the other hand, luck also plays a fundamental role in these cases, and thus interesting situations of "being in the right place, at the right time" arise.
Of course, the twist does not always open the doors to well-intentioned projects or actions: more than one complaint has been annulled due to spelling errors in the name of the accused , and this represents a basic example of how to take advantage of certain rules to evade a legal problem, although It is a legitimate accusation .
It can be mentioned as a twist to a crossroads.
The twist and turn as a crossroads or muddle
A vericueto is also understood as a crossroads or an imbroglio . A man must pay 500 pesos to the electricity company before 6 p.m. or they will cut off his supply. The person does not have the money in hand, although a contractor owes them a payment. Less than an hour before the deadline to pay off his debt, the subject is in a dilemma: he hesitates between going to demand payment from his debtor, requesting an unlikely extension from the company or looking for someone to lend him the money.
In this last example we can see the difficulty referred to in the objective meaning of the term vericueto : "rough, narrow and tortuous path, usually elevated, through which it is not easy to move" or "broken and rough place, which is only possible to walk with difficulty .