Only 36.3% of inhabitants in 2022 had confidence in their governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, a figure in global terms clearly lower than the OECD average, although with notable differences by country, and which has rather decreased since 2008. Between those two years, trust in governments has decreased by 3.9 percentage points in […]
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Prosecutor asks to increase Cristina Fernández’s sentence to 12 years in corruption trial
A prosecutor asked this Monday to aggravate the sentence of the former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (2007-2015) in a trial for corruption, for which the former vice president had already been sentenced in December 2022 to six years in prison and disqualification from public office. During the first hearing to review the sentence against Fernández, […]
China sentences former bank president to death for corruption
The former president of the Chinese bank China Merchants Bank, Tian Huiyu, was sentenced this Monday to a suspended death sentence, state television CCTV announced, within the framework of a major anti-corruption campaign by President Xi Jinping against the financial sector. Death sentences of this type are usually commuted to life imprisonment after two years […]
Former ICBC bank discipline chief arrested for corruption in China
Liu Lixian, a former member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) committee of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and former head of the bank’s disciplinary inspection commission, has been arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes, the agency reported today. Xinhua news. The official announcement, published this Sunday on the website of […]
Dominican Republic, the only American country with great anti-corruption progress this decade
Dominican Republic It is the only country in America that has made significant progress against corruption this decade and, since 2020, it has risen 7 points, according to a report released this Tuesday by Transparency International (TI). In the 2023 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) of this organization, with a scale from 0 (very corrupt) to […]
FMLN and Arena, the keys to an opposition in danger of extinction in El Salvador
The historic parties Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN, left) and the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena, right) could, after the presidential and legislative elections of February 4, sink even further and their political influence “disappear” given the foreseeable victory of the ruling party Nayib Bukele. These political formations, which governed El Salvador for three decades, […]
Three keys to understanding the voracious corruption that corrodes Guatemala
Bernardo Arevalo his investiture on Sunday as president of Guatemala. For months he faced a judicial onslaught attributed to the country’s powerful economic and political elite with one purpose: to perpetuate corruption. Executed by the Prosecutor’s Office, the offensive sought to withdraw his immunity, achieved the suspension of his Semilla party and tried to annul […]
Guatemala: Prosecutor is named “corrupt character” of 2023 by journalist network
The attorney general of GuatemalaConsuelo Porras, was named this Thursday as the “corrupt character” 2023 by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Organization (OCCRP), a global network of investigative journalists. Consuelo Porras is “one of the many bureaucrats who have helped derail democracy”indicates that organization in the presentation of this award, which they have awarded […]
‘La casa de papel’ inspires political row in India amid corruption accusations
The successful Spanish series ‘The Money Heist’ This Tuesday inspired a political row in the India with the participation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, following the recent seizure of US$42 million in cash in businesses belonging to an opposition parliamentarian. “In India, who needs a fiction like ‘Money Heist’ when we have the Congress Party, […]
Mexico and the US create a mechanism to monitor illicit investments and financing
The Governments of Mexico and USA agreed this Thursday on a joint scheme to monitor the security of investments made on both sides of the border, as well as pursue the money laundering and the corruption that allow financing illicit activities such as drug trafficking fentanyl. “I am pleased to announce that the United States […]