Uruguay and Chile, are very transparent countries

Chile and Uruguay are the leaders in transparency in Latin America, while Venezuela and Paraguay are perceived as the most corrupt, according to a report published yesterday by the German organization Transparency International (TI).

In the 2011 edition of its traditional perception of corruption index (CPI), only three of the twenty countries of the Latin American area approved in perceived its sector transparency public.

"Chile brand line and the rest of Latin America follow little to little

This is a greeting for Chile, but also a recommendation to impose higher barriers", said in remarks the director for the Americas of you, Alejandro Salas.

To his view, the majority of Latin American countries that score low in the table suffer from "weak institutionalization," where the Government or main political actor-"regardless of whether left-wing or" u000aright-wing "-is"very strong", so"there is no balance of power".

Scale
on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 10 (very clear), Chile (7.2) occupies the position 22 of the 183 countries studied, Uruguay (7.9) 25-Puerto Rico (5,6) the 39, while Nicaragua (2.5), Paraguay (2.2) and Venezuela (1.9) occupied the tail carriage, in the posts 134, 154 and 172 respectively.

Next to the one approved rank Costa Rica (4.8) and Cuba (4.2), followed by Brazil (3.8) - above China-Colombia (3,4), El Salvador (3,4), Peru (3,4) and Panama (3.3).

Argentina Mexico remain in the 3.0 on ten - to the level of Malawi and Indonesia-- and then ranking manage to put Bolivia (2.8), Ecuador (2.7), Guatemala (2.7), Dominican Republic (2.6) and Honduras (2.6).

In comparison with last year, the majority of Latin American countries surveyed experienced minimal variations, with the positive exceptions of Cuba and u000aEl Salvador, which recorded increases in substantive, and the decline of Costa Rica.

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