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Corruption 👮
Every year, a German organization called Transparency International embarks on measuring corruption in each of the world's countries. It does so through a metric they've branded as the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which, as the name implies, measures how corrupt people perceive their countries to be.
As with any such index, the methodology leaves room for criticism. Many will notice that according to this list, Cuba is our region's fourth least corrupt country. The correct way of interpreting the index is that Cubans consider their country less corrupt than, say, Colombians consider their own. It's a subjective measure.
Latin American countries range from Venezuela, which now ranks second to worst worldwide, to Uruguay, which is tied with Japan and perceived as less corrupt than some of the most developed nations like the US and France.
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