The article examines corruption in the Dominican Republic (DR) as an obstacle to the U.S. war on drugs in the region. Topics discussed include the history of military rule in DR from the ouster of demo...
Turning back the clock on this index exposes improvements and descents into tragedy. On the improvements side, the Dominican Republic has made strides to regain its people’s trust, bettering its score by over 20 percentage points in the past decade. In the early 2010s, the Dominican Republic...
Dominican Republic 35 32 Dec/23 Points Egypt 35 30 Dec/23 Points Nepal 35 34 Dec/23 Points Panama 35 36 Dec/23 Points Sierra Leone 35 34 Dec/23 Points Thailand 35 36 Dec/23 Points Ecuador 34 36 Dec/23 Points Indonesia 34 34 Dec/23 Points Malawi 34 34 Dec/23 Points Philippines 34...
the most significant example of which is still the Brasilia Declaration, signed in February 2017 by the Public Prosecutors of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela – as well as Portugal, adding a European element to the effort...
Among the others who have come under scrutiny is Francis Lorenzo, the Dominican Republic’s deputy ambassador to the U.N., who allegedly accepted and paid bribes as a part of a scheme to influence decisions related to the development of a multi-billion dollar U.N. conference center in ...
his political influence to pressure government officials to resolve a Medicare billing dispute in favor of a friend — Dr. Salomon Melgen — securing visas for the doctor's girlfriends and helping protect a contract the doctor had to provide port-screening equipment to the Dominican Republic. ...
behalf—in Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Iraq, Latvia, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Serbia, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, and Uzbekistan, among others. The designations include familiar names in the anticorruption ...
accomplish when corruption gets in the way. Subsequently, many cases can be cited where vast resource-endowed nations, such as Paraguay, have not been able to accomplish economic development due to high corruption, such as Nigeria, Venezuela, Libya, the DRC, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and ...
A statement announced that a meeting held Thursday saw representatives from attorney-general and prosecutor-general offices from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, and Venezuela agree to team up. ...
Conservative news site the Daily Caller broke the story after GOP political operatives set up several Skype interviews with several women in the Dominican Republic who claimed the senator had paid them for sex. According to the anonymous tip that launched the probe, Melgen provided the underage ...