Central America is having a significant progress in the fight against corruption, he said Wednesday in Panama's representative for Central America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Amado Philip de Andrés.
"It really is giving a spring in the fight against corruption" in the region, said Philip de Andrés reporters during a public event.
The term "spring" refers to the "Arab Spring", starring massive citizen protests that led to the fall of several regimes in the Middle East.
According to this expert, to the United Nations there are "very important examples in the region of radical struggle against the effects of corruption," not only for the prosecution or investigations of senior officials, but by hardening of the anti-corruption legislation in several countries.
He highlighted what happened this year in Guatemala, where President Otto Perez and his Vice President Roxana Baldetti resigned their positions and were jailed for alleged links to a millionaire fraud in national customs.
"The case of Guatemala was paradigmatic because you have seen the tremendous example given Guatemala's Attorney General to prosecute a president," Philip said.
He also praised the events in Honduras, Panama and El Salvador.
In Honduras thousands of protesters have taken to protest against the government of Juan Orlando Hernández for alleged embezzlement of social security, while in Panama the Supreme Court investigates the president Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014) by various scandals opponents espionage and embezzlement of public funds.
In El Salvador, a judge sent last week corruption trial to former President Francisco Flores (1999-2004) on charges of embezzlement, money laundering and illicit enrichment.
by : onasis alvares
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