Excerpted from an article published in the print version of The Dialogue's Latin America Advisor.
David D. Nelson, CEO of Global Business Policy-DC, LLC and former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay:
“Political leaders throughout Latin America are being rocked by scandals, from Lava Jato in Brazil to the extensive tentacles of Odebrecht, which brought down presidents in Brazil and Peru and numerous senior officials including the former CEO of Pemex in Mexico—not to mention the wholesale looting of PDVSA in Venezuela. Even relatively transparent Costa Rica has been rocked by the ‘cementazo’ scandal. The central theme of this year’s Summit of the Americas is anti-corruption—a response to the demands of the growing and increasingly empowered middle classes in Latin America. In that context, the case against Raúl Sendic can be viewed as a demonstration of the need for constant vigilance even in a country rated by Transparency International as the least corrupt in Latin America."
See the full article here.