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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 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]
In November, ten more government officials were added to OFAC's list of Venezuelans sanctioned after the regional elections; [36] the U.S. Treasury Department described the individuals as being "associated with undermining electoral processes, media censorship, or corruption in government-administered food programs in Venezuela". [37]
Venezuela not only is perceived as the most corrupt country in the Americas, ... Granted, Latin Americans have often reacted strongly against government corruption, as we saw in Brazil’s 2014 ...
Federal agencies have gone after corruption in Venezuela but pressure from the US intensified following Maduro’s controversial reelection for a third presidential term in July.
Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA, once the country’s economic backbone, has been severely affected by corruption | Opinion
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 ...
[211] [212] [213] Guaidó said that Venezuela's largest-ever power outage was "the product of the inefficiency, the incapability, the corruption of a regime that doesn't care about the lives of Venezuelans", [214] Maduro's Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, called for an investigation of Guaidó, alleging that he had "sabotaged" the electric ...