Uruguay and Chile, the least corrupt “in a corrupt continent”

Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 14:28 UTC

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Corruption in Latin America is one of the most notorious problems on the region's agenda after a decade of major judicial operations that exposed corruption schemes involving governments and companies alike. According to Transparency International (TI), corruption has been entrenched in Latin America for more than a decade with little progress and many setbacks in terms of democracy and human rights. Read full article

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Marti Llazo
One of the problems in quantifying corruption in Chile is that so few are willing to acknowledge that what they do is actually corrupt, as if those “favours” weren't actually bits of corrupt activity. The country is in fact massively corrupt but people are in denial about it. It's one thing to “wash the dirty laundry at home” but it's quite another to pretend that the laundry isn't dirty. And it is very dirty, though it can never hope to reach the stature of that Queen of Corruption next door in Argentina.
Jan 26th, 2022 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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FortHay
Fair enough, Marti Llazo, but the relative comparison probably still holds up. In Brazil, corruption is virtually a lifestyle, but even there the majority of manipulators pretend nothing untoward is taking place. In the US, rated far above Latin America, “favours” are merely disguised more skillfully
Jan 26th, 2022 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marti Llazo
Yes, let us consider not absolute values but instead the “relative comparison” for corrupt Latin American nations -- not unlike praising the happiest lunatic in the asylum, or the most enjoyable form of lung cancer.
Jan 27th, 2022 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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