Global IssuesNews headlines for “Corruption”, page 35
COLOMBIA: Jaime Garzón’s Murder; No Digging Allowed Part 2
- Inter Press Service
It’s always the same: the TV audience is grief-stricken and indignant that he is no longer with us, but they continue to laugh along with him. Beloved Colombian comic Jaime Garzón was assassinated on Aug. 13, 1999, but he is still alive on the small screen.
PERU: Minister Tried to Promote Police Investigated for Massacre
- Inter Press Service
Peru’s Interior Minister Mercedes Cabanillas attempted to promote 11 police officials for their performance in the brutal Jun. 5 crackdown on native protests against government decrees that opened up indigenous land in the Amazon jungle to oil, mining, logging and agribusiness companies.
CUBA: Video Sheds Light on Raúl Castro's Strict Approach
- Inter Press Service
In another demonstration that it is impossible to hide anything in this socialist Caribbean island nation, the hottest video in Cuba today appears to show President Raúl Castro's determination to root out certain vices and disloyalties, regardless of the rank of the people involved.
GUATEMALA: Journalists in Jeopardy
- Inter Press Service
Veteran television reporter Rolando Santiz was on his way to downtown Guatemala City on Apr. 1 when two gunmen on a motorcycle drove up alongside his car and killed him in a rain of gunfire. The photographer driving with him was wounded but miraculously survived.
COLOMBIA: Spying in the Name of 'Democratic Security'
- Inter Press Service
While the world's attention was riveted on the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama, an operation was surreptitiously being carried out Jan. 19-21 at the headquarters of Colombia’s domestic intelligence agency, the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS), which answers directly to the president’s office.
EL SALVADOR: Leftist Govt Clamps Down on Corruption
- Inter Press Service
Serious allegations of corruption involving central figures in the government of right-wing former Salvadoran president Antonio Saca (2004-2009) will be investigated by a commission led by Finance Minister Carlos Cáceres.
MALAYSIA: Blacklisted For Not Enforcing Trafficking Laws
- Inter Press Service
After years of lobbying by rights activists and the international community, Malaysia passed an effective and comprehensive law in 2007 against human trafficking with provisions for protection, shelter and return of trafficked person to their home countries.
COLOMBIA: All the President’s Spies
- Inter Press Service
Colombian journalist Hollman Morris phoned an international news agency and said in an agitated voice: 'I am being followed by the police.'
U.S.: Congress Reviews Military Contracts, Kabul Embassy Scandal
- Inter Press Service
Private security guards abandoning their posts at the U.S. embassy in Kabul for up to three and a half hours.
NIGERIA: Endemic Corruption Draining Human, Economic Resources
- Inter Press Service
Government corruption has long been a fact of life in Nigeria - elections are often fraught with fraud, intimidation, and violence; oil companies have been known to pay the military for assistance in suppressing protests; embezzling politicians steal money away from infrastructure services and programmes.
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