Argentina, like the rest of the region, stagnates in the fight against corruption

The index of Perception of corruptionOf the 183 countries badyzed, it gives 70 points to Uruguay (23rd position) and 67 to Chile (27th position) out of a maximum of 100, for the 18th and 25th Venezuela (168th) and Nicaragua (152nd).

Locally, Argentina presents a stagnation, remaining in 85th position (as in 2017), with 40 points. Recall that in 2016, the country that governs Mauricio Macri he was in 95th place with 36 points.

The results are meager if we take into account that the government has made the fight against corruption one of its axes campaign and work. In fact, this Monday, the President badured that "we leave the corruption behind"when visiting a hospital in the city of Mar del Plata.

The table leads Denmark and New Zealand, with 88 and 87 points respectively, and Somalia and Syria close, with 10 and 13, polled the NGO based in Berlin, Germany.

In the center of the "table" are Costa Rica (56), Cuba (47), Panama (37), Colombia (36), Brazil, El Salvador and Peru (35), Ecuador ( 34), the Dominican Republic (30). ), Bolivia, Honduras and Paraguay (29), Mexico (28) and Guatemala (27).

The situation of the fight against corruption in Latin America is "worrying", warned in an interview at the news agency EFE, president of TI, Argentina Delia Ferreira, who denounced the existence of a "clear trend" to "restrict the space of civil society in a region where authoritarian and populist leaders proliferate".

The situation of the fight against corruption in Latin America is worrying "(Delia Ferreira)

Regional photography begins with the "big problem" that supposes VenezuelaFerreira said Colombia is a country in "humanitarian crisis caused by corruption" and where all institutions have been infiltrated by the state.

The document also includes clouds on Nicaragua, Mexico and Guatemala, and the risk that regional referents such as the United States and Brazil clutter presidents such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro.

In Nicaragua, "the regime has fully co-opted" the institutions, in Guatemala, the government has turned the bodies that act as arbitrators into "pocket dogs" that only attack opponents. In Mexico, corruption is unleashed by the infiltration of organized crime. politics.

Brazil, still recovering business "Lava jato" and Odebrecht, is in a situation "very worrying" because of the arrival of Bolsonaro, whose first steps were to increase controls on non-profit organizations. and weaken the law on access to public information, Ferreira continued.

The way politics is done in the region is changing, adding to a global trend in which populist and authoritarian leaders undermine democratic practices to weaken the system "from the inside," says TI's report. .