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The Corruption Perceptions Index, produced annually by the NGO Transparency International (TNI) ranked Venezuela among the most corrupt countries in the world [39] A 2013 survey by TNI found that 68% of those believed that the government's efforts to fight corruption were ineffective; a majority of those surveyed said the government's effort ...
The rise of murders in Venezuela following the Chávez presidency has also been attributed by experts to the corruption of Venezuelan authorities, poor gun control and a poor judiciary system. [19] The Chávez government banned private gun ownership in 2012 [20] [21] but the overall crime rate continued to increase. In some cases, crime has ...
The government's failure to concentrate on healthcare and a reduction in spending on healthcare, along with unchecked government corruption resulted in avoidable deaths due to severe shortages of medical supplies and equipment, and the emigration of medical professionals to other countries. [160] [161]
Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA, once the country’s economic backbone, has been severely affected by corruption | Opinion
World Bank List of countries by GDP (nominal) ranked 30th biggest economy in the world (this citation should be reviewed, Venezuela has a blank entry in cited document, nor is the document from 2015). [2]
For years, federal prosecutors in Miami have charged dozens of Venezuelan officials, businessmen and other so-called kleptocrats with collectively stealing billions of dollars from their oil-rich ...
HOUSTON/WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) -More than two weeks after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed reelection victory, the U.S. and other Western countries are showing little sign of ...
There was censorship and media control during the Venezuelan presidential crisis between 2019 and January 2023.. A crisis concerning who was the legitimate president of Venezuela began on 10 January 2019, when the opposition-majority National Assembly declared that incumbent Nicolás Maduro's 2018 reelection was invalid and the body declared its president, Juan Guaidó, to be acting president ...