Paraguay Chips Away at Empire of Corruption
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ASUNCION, Paraguay  - They are a new breed of  public servants in Paraguay, plucked from the private sector by  a president who needs to crack down on the endemic corruption  that has emptied his state's coffers.
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The Philippines is perceived by foreign businessmen as Asia&#39;s most corrupt economy, according to a survey Tuesday that also found countries were failing properly to tackle corruption.
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Chileâs former President General Augusto Pinochet has been stripped of his legal immunity following a ruling by the countryâs Supreme Court.
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The Philippines remained the worldâs 11th most corrupt nation in a field of 146 countries evaluated by the London-based Transparency International (TI).
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Stacks of dirty money nabbed in a botched smear campaign covered Brazil's front pages on Saturday as polls showed for the first time that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva could be forced to a second round run-off.
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Nuhu Ribadu has come to represent integrity and rule of law in the corruption-plagued country.
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Behind the glitzy playgrounds of Cancun is a growing drug war, fueled by widespread police corruption, the partial disruption of once-popular trafficking routes through Haiti and a sudden turf battle between two of the country's main drug gangs.
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A decade after Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay sealed a trade deal with visions of transforming South America into a unified economic bloc, Mercosur nation officials are returning amid mounting criticism to the colonial Brazilian town where they signed the historic agreement.
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Several thousand Paraguayans held a protest rally in the country's capital on Friday night, charging electoral fraud in the primary to pick the ruling party's candidate for the April 20 presidential election.
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Moves are launched in Brazil to remove the senate leader, a key ally of President Lula, amid a corruption scandal.
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The anti-corruption watchdog group, Transparency International, has ranked Bangladesh and Haiti as the world&#39;s most corrupt countries in its annual report.
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A Chilean appeals court on Friday dropped corruption charges against former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet's widow and four of his children, who had been accused of misuse of state funds related to multimillion-dollar overseas bank accounts.
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A new survey by Transparency International (TI), an anti-graft organisation, also rated Nigeria, Chad, Myanmar, Azerbaijan and Paraguay among the world&#39;s most corrupt nations.
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A decade after Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay sealed a trade deal amid grandiose visions of transforming South America into a single economic bloc, officials representing the Mercosur nations are returning amid mounting criticism to the same colonial Brazilian town where the historic agreement was signed.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay  - Opposition lawmakers in   Paraguay vowed on Monday to block all government legislation in   a protest of the center-right president's plans to change the   constitution in order to seek re-election.
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In a deepening political crisis touched off by anti-corruption efforts, Nicaragua's congress has voted to give itself the power to ratify and dismiss Cabinet ministers and other officials.
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Critics say the government is using dictatorship-era laws to crack down harshly on indigenous criminals.