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[Global corruption report 2001] Central america, the caribbean and mexico
Gutierrez, Miren
Gutierrez, Miren
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After years of political and economic disruption, the region including Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico is engaged in efforts to consolidate its democratic transition. Public sector reforms are common in almost every country. Governments are inviting, or at least accepting, civil society participation in transparency and accountability initiatives. The region seems to be finally coming to grips with the fact that its long history of corruption hinders development. After the notorious piñatas1 of the 1980s and 1990s that accompanied the sale of public property, said Salvadoran analyst Alberto Arene, ‘new winds of change are blowing in Central America with new privatisation and free market laws, a fresh criticism of lack of efficiency and independence, … new projects by international organisations geared to strengthen and modernise [these countries], and some media prepared to investigate and inform about impunity’.2 A host of international, regional, national and sub-national actors are participating in the campaign against malfeasance in governance. But the panorama in the region is mixed. Overall, practical institutional and normative development is positive, but the results are modest. Mexico is currently the region’s shining star. President Vicente Fox, the first opposition leader to be elected in more than seven decades, called for a break from corruption as ‘the favoured instrument of control’. In Central America, 2000–01 brought further natural disasters and, with them, challenges to the fight against corruption. Several financial centres in the region, particularly in the Caribbean, came under concerted international pressure to clean up their lax approach to money laundering, often linked to the narcotics trade
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2001
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393571100X
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