Latin America Makes Little Progress Against Corruption

By artappraiser on Fri, 02/03/2023 - 10:49am |

#ElitesAndCrime | Uruguay is among the least countries in the world, while Haiti and Venezuela are among the worst. What accounts for such wide-ranging regional differences?

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— InSight Crime (@InSightCrime) February 3, 2023

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#Cocaine | Ecuador’s Army has been useful to gangs as a source of weapons, bought or stolen. But corrupt Navy sailors can offer more, including escorting cocaine shipments.https://t.co/N2TA1H0V6L
— InSight Crime (@InSightCrime) February 5, 2023

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/05/2023 - 1:36pm

#Cocaine | The cocaine trade is generating more money than ever. Will #Colombia’s drug trafficking organizations submit to the country’s government for the sake of “Total Peace”?

https://t.co/TdZLmmqFYV pic.twitter.com/Xp9IJ98NZm
— InSight Crime (@InSightCrime) February 5, 2023

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/05/2023 - 1:40pm

"They should never have been jailed, and their families should never have been persecuted in retaliation of their loved ones’ work.” Our President Burhan Sonmez on the release of 222 political prisoners in #Nicaragua on Thursday: https://t.co/pCEaPgMmNj
— PEN International (@pen_int) February 11, 2023

There's a problem with this narrative! Nicaragua is a socialist heaven! And if the U.S. would just leave them alone, it would be free of corruption! Those 222 must have really been evil American C.I.A. or their minions?

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 7:10am

Yeah, filly minions.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 7:40am

#VenezuelaObservatory | Venezuelan organized crime has flourished under the Maduro government, but which groups posed the biggest threat in 2022 and what can we expect from them in 2023? Read InSight Crime’s top 10 to learn more: https://t.co/nIJFHsVUfr
— InSight Crime (@InSightCrime) February 16, 2023

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/16/2023 - 4:52pm

#Brazil | Over 60 police officers in Brazil’s northeast province of Ceará have been arrested for connections to criminal gangs. Read why such police corruption is difficult to root out: https://t.co/PSN7PtAL74
— InSight Crime (@InSightCrime) February 19, 2023

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/19/2023 - 4:35pm

Peru is permanently withdrawing its ambassador to Mexico over its support for ousted former president Pedro Castillo, escalating tensions https://t.co/NhWm8aACdg
— Bloomberg (@business) February 25, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/24/2023 - 10:49pm

Tuff on crime?

El Salvador has created a hellhole that will explode...

Mega-prison in El Salvador for 40,000 suspected gangsters opens https://t.co/rvZf1pcBn1 via @MailOnline
— Dave Talltree, son of Wymo. Leilani is the ʻīlio. (@unsc1325) February 25, 2023

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/25/2023 - 4:55am

yeah that whole thing is interesting because it's an experiment in authoritarianism precisely to crack down on crime. which is the will of the majority, civil rights be damned, right to life and limb take priority. will it all blow up?

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/25/2023 - 1:47pm

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