An estimated $30 to $70 billion USD were lost due to corruption during the presidency of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa (2007-2017).
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Chile’s executive branch has had its fair share of criticism from the Renovación Nacional (RN) party for only looking after its own interests.
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In a video uploaded to Facebook, retired general Mauricio Ávila Medina criticized the government’s security policy.
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Politician Rubén Maldonado commented on the controversial exodus of peledeístas (members of the Dominican Liberation Party or PLD) to a new political organization headed by former president Leonel Fernández, La Fuerza del Pueblo (The Power of the People) or LFP.
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Audio recordings of conversations between two Peruvian attorneys involved in anti-corruption initiatives and Martín Belaunde, a businessman seeking a plea deal in relation to his involvements in Operation Carwash and the corruption scandal around former Peruvian president César Álvarez, reveal that the attorneys appeared to have shaped Belaunde’s testimony to fit the official story.
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After 20 days of social turmoil as a result of the Reform 883, which would increase the price of fossil fuels, the Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno is not listening to the people.
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When Rosario Murillo refers to the enemies of the Ortega-Murillo regime as “termites” set against the loyal “frogs,” are these signs of politics deteriorating into mere tribalism or the curses of an increasingly impotent government?
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The right-wing electoral coalition recently unveiled its plan for education, which drew sharp criticism from the head of an association of public educators.
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After the presidential election in 2015, many felt Mauricio Macri would change politics in Argentina as the first non-Radical or Peronist President. He has not met these expectations and showed trends of past politicians.
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