A storm hit when the sky seemed calm
2011 Mayo Nicaragua
In the second week of April, Walter Porras, general director of Nicaragua’s internal revenue service, the DGI, was suddenly fired. Two months earlier,...
Societal Validation for Drug Trafficking Is Growing
2010 Diciembre Nicaragua
Aphenomenon has appeared on the Caribbean Coast, in Managua and different areas on the Pacific Coast that we consider extremely dangerous: societal legitimization...
The Odyssey of a Peasant Navigating the Seas of Power
2006 Septiembre Nicaragua
Matagalpa, August 2, 2006. Bearing corn stalks and banners proclaiming “you won’t intimidate me,” a crowd of over a hundred peasants, human rights activists...
Finland’s Successful Experience in the Fight Against Corruption
2006 Abril Internacional
Although Finland is not entirely without corruption, it gets consistently high ratings in international surveys on the topic. The fact that it is relatively...
The Fight against Corruption: Sowing Now to Harvest Later
2004 Septiembre Nicaragua
Let’s briefly outline why we are where we are today and why, as soon as possible, we have to come up with our own regulatory and juridical framework...
Realities and Appearances In the Fight against Corruption
2002 Octubre Internacional
Corruption has been high on the political agenda for some time now, although it has been accentuated in recent years. All observers agree on the seriousness...
Part 1: The Political Scene: One Step Forward, How Many Back?
2002 Octubre Nicaragua
The zigzags in the fight against corruption are proving that corruption and impunity are the most solid underpinnings of national political culture,...
A Government in the Opposition and A Pair of Caudillos Who Won’t Step Down
2002 Julio Nicaragua
The test of strength between Bolaños and Alemán—both have called it war—is occupying the entire political stage. Bolaños has decided to make the fight...
Micro-salaries and Mega-salaries: Mega-inequality and Micro-development
2002 Marzo Nicaragua
Nicaragua is a country of brutal contrasts. To measure the income of Nicaraguans, we have to shift from the electron microscope to the sidereal telescope,...
The War against Coca: A View from Bolivia
2001 Abril América Latina
In its fight against drugs, the US government has declared war on coca and thus on the peasant families who grow this prodigious plant in the valleys...
Money Laundering and Investment: A Few Clues
2000 Junio Internacional
Starting at the end of the 1960s, certain platforms for "dirty" money began to be set up in offshore tax havens and financial centers—the same countries...
The Comptroller’s Office and Corruption: What does Managua Think?
1999 Abril Nicaragua
On March 27-28, IDESO, envío's institute of surveys and opinion samplings set out to gather these opinions, which are so frequently neglected...
The Paths to Corruption
1998 Octubre Nicaragua
Accusations of acts of corruption committed by officials in Violeta Chamorro's government made the front pages of the national papers both during and...
Immunity and Impunity: De Facto or Legal?
1998 Julio Nicaragua
IN THE ABSOLUTIST MONARCHICAL SYSTEMS THE KING WAS THE ONLY PERSON who did not have to answer to his subjects for his actions. The king responded only...
The Problem of Property And Property Owners
1997 Noviembre Nicaragua
To speak of the property problem in Nicaragua, and of the problem of property owners, we are obliged to look to the immediate past. From that vantage...
Some Reflections On the Piñata
1996 Julio Nicaragua
Nicaragua, it cannot be repeated too often, always pays for corruption. Given the chamorro government's extensive official corruption, however, it is...
The Fight Against Corruption: Banner of the Left
1996 Abril Internacional
The word corruption comes from the latin corrumpere. Corominas says IT BE?came part of the language between 1220 and 1250. The Diccionario de la Academia...