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RWANDA
Genocide Ideology and Sectarianism Laws Silencing Critics?
Analysis by Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS - Among its unstable and conflict-ridden neighbours, Rwanda stands out. It has been pegged as a model of development and one of Africa’s success stories: Since the 1990’s, when a civil war ravaged the country, average incomes have doubled, its people have become healthier and less hungry and it has the highest proportion of women parliamentarians worldwide. Yet, maintaining this stability is a government accused of muzzling its opponents and committing human rights abuses.
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GUATEMALA
New Challenges for Anti-Corruption Commission
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - New challenges and a long list of shocking cases involving hidden power structures are faced by the new head of the United Nations-mandated International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
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CORRUPTION-PERU
Gov't Tries to Track Down Millions from Convicted Officials
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption.
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Q&A
'Corruption Is an Extraordinary Danger'
Patricia Grogg interviews Cuban political scientist ESTEBAN MORALES
HAVANA - "I still view corruption as an extraordinary danger" to the country, as its "corrosive power" makes it a matter of "national security," said Esteban Morales, who was expelled from the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) after publishing an article warning of its pervasive effects.
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Imprisonment of Judge Reflects Poorly on Venezuelan Justice
By Estrella Gutiérrez
CARACAS - "One day more, one day less," says María Lourdes Afiuni when she says hello or goodbye to her thousands of followers on Twitter. The Venezuelan judge has spent the last eight months in prison, because she decided that a defendant should be released on bail pending trial.
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PERU
Transparency a Challenge for Mining and Oil
By Milagros Salazar*
LIMA - Peru is the only Latin American country that has made steps towards joining the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), but has a difficult stretch ahead as it tries to overcome industry resistance to reporting profits and the government's own obstacles.
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Families of Dead U.S. Vets Accuse Insurer of Massive Scam
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Prudential cheated the families of dead U.S. soldiers and Marines out of more than 100 million dollars in interest on their life-insurance policies, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in a Massachusetts federal court.
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PERU
President Admits Corruption Has Tarnished Government
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - In his Independence Day speech in the Peruvian Congress, which was broadcast nationwide, President Alan García admitted that corruption has tarnished his administration, although he lectured the judicial branch for delays in punishing those responsible.
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Civil Society Hails New Oil and Mining Transparency Standards
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - National and international civil society groups Thursday hailed the U.S. Senate's passage of a major financial reform act that includes a key anti-corruption provision requiring energy and mining companies to publicly disclose payments they make to governments around the world.
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Major Strides Seen in Halting Illegal Logging
By Hannah Rubenstein
NEW YORK - A comprehensive report, released Thursday by Chatham House, finds that production of illegal timber worldwide has declined by 22 percent since 2002, a trend that is benefiting both communities dependent on tropical forests and the global climate.
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SPORTS
Power and Passion Put Football Above the Law
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - The FIFA Football World Cup is presented -- and felt emotionally by millions -- as a contest amongst countries in which national honour is at stake. But it is also a private business, controlled by a small group of people who exploit patriotism and foment rivalries in marketing the "product."
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COLOMBIA
Paramilitaries Don't Want to Take the Blame Alone
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTÁ - The so-called para-politics, para-institutions and para-economy in Colombia "have their place in the dock" among the accused, said eight former leaders of ultra-right armed paramilitary groups, now demobilised and charged with crimes against humanity in the nation's decades-long civil war.
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ZAMBIA
"Privatisation Like Grabbing Goods Fallen from a Truck"
By Ruth Langa
LUSAKA - Zambia has sold more than 262 state-owned enterprises in the past 18 years, with the latest being the beleaguered telecommunications company Zamtel.
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EGYPT
Corruption Watchdogs Bite Selectively
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Anti-corruption watchdogs have shown their teeth, but Egypt's fat cats appear safe from prosecution as long as they stay in favour with the regime.
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COLOMBIA
Spying Knows No Borders
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTÁ - Venezuela's Minister of Interior and Justice, Tarek El Aissami, presented a report Oct. 29, 2009, to his country's National Assembly. That report is believed to have resulted, two days later, in the murder of two people on a farm in neighbouring Colombia, near the capital.
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Corruption depletes national wealth and undercuts legitimacy. Transparency International says corruption is often to blame for already limited public resources being diverted to uneconomic high-profile projects, at the expense of less spectacular but more necessary development initiatives. Civil society is finding its voice to demand that those behind corrupt acts are held accountable.