MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Mercosur, except for Uruguay quite a “corrupt” neighbourhood, according to TI
Mercosur and Unasur democracies did not rank very encouragingly in the latest Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 with all countries, except Chile and Uruguay, ranking below the score of 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean). Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOh my word, hahahhah, Hahhahaa!! not much to add to that is there??
Dec 05th, 2012 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Except well done uruguay and Chile, exceptional, maybe it will rub off on their corrupt neighbours :)
Can't Chile and Uruguay detach themselves from this mess and float around into the middle of the atlantic somewhere near to the falklands?
Dec 05th, 2012 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Meanwhile, in response to this report, the rest of the world issued a joint statement saying “well, durrh!”.
Dec 05th, 2012 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lol, Argentina, always high scores in the wrong categories.
Dec 05th, 2012 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 'el bag' will no doubt suggest a South American corruption index where they're all given top marks. It'll be like that chinese bond rating agency, dadong (which sounds a bit like big pen!s in mandarin)
Dec 05th, 2012 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0queue “its only the perception of corruption not corruption itself!1!!1111!!111!!”
Dec 05th, 2012 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mwahahahahahahah
We in Uruguay may not be corrupt, but oh dear to get thru the bureacracy takes for ever
Dec 05th, 2012 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hhhhmmmmm.............
Dec 05th, 2012 - 06:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that was rather acid wasn't it ?
sorry..but the central point is that propaganda,when and as required,
will always be best distributed by people chosen for their capacity believe in what they've been fed..and sometimes that requires a silly mind. !
Argentina down from 100th place last year to 102nd place this. But see how the gullible believe the Argentine version of the history of the Falklands, which is also known as 'the Great Malvinas Lie'.
Dec 05th, 2012 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What Mercopress conveniently forgot on this short, brutish and nasty little report is that all Mercosur countries improved their positions and scores by quite a bit since last year. Brazil, for example, is now the least corrupt of the BRICs. Meanwhile corruption worsens in Britain and slowly eats away social cohesion.
Dec 05th, 2012 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Care to watch some Uruguay news lately? They should be included in this report.
Dec 05th, 2012 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 Which one proargie? We do have a free press here and most of us read both the left wing and right wing press and make our own judgements on the news as befits a free mature nation with a free press
Dec 05th, 2012 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All i saw was that S.A. Was mainly a nasty shade of dark orange and brown, in the UK we're happy to say our PM is a dick, our MP's should grow up and our newspapers should be more regulated (even if all the malvinistas ignore this post and claim we never criticise ourselves, even if it's one part of our culture we're most proud of) but very few argies will admit their country has problems. Even if the masses rose up and stuck kfc's head on a spike the a's here would still be typing from their basements defending her legacy. I live in Finland, by the way, and i've met plenty of foreigners here, but no argies. Problem? Too non-corrupt for you?
Dec 06th, 2012 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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