This Thursday, December 15, at 10 in the morning, the act of commemoration of the International Anti-Corruption Day. The activity will take place in the assembly hall of the building, located in Plaza Independencia.
The Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres; the Undersecretary of Education and Culture, Ana Ribeiro; and authorities of the Board of Transparency and Public Ethics (JUTEP), the interim president Guillermo Ortiz and the member Ana María Ferraris.
The government celebrates this in the midst of two of the biggest scandals in the country’s recent history: the exceptional and expedited delivery of a passport to Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, which allowed him to leave a Dubai prison where he had been jailed for entering the country with a forged document; and that of Alejandro Astesian, former custodian of President Luis Lacalle Pou, who coordinated, precisely from the Executive Tower, a gigantic network of selling false passports to Russian citizens, with the connivance of various people.
There are several annual reports that measure the level of corruption in different countries, such as the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) produced by Transparency International. According to the latest CPI report, the least corrupt countries in Latin America in 2021 were Uruguay, Chile and Costa Rica.
However, it is important to take into account that the level of corruption can change over time, so it is possible that these rankings are no longer valid and, in order to have numbers more in line with current reality, we would have to wait for some closer analysis. in the time.
