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Improved rates of perception of corruption in Mexico (2019) 6:19
(CNN Spanish) - Mexico climbed eight positions in the Corruption Perception Index 2019, a ranking that the Transparency International NGO makes every year. He went from post 138 (from 180 countries) to 130.
The International Transparency Index measures the perception of corruption to the extent that a score of 100 would be very clean and 0, highly corrupt.
Mexico scored 29, while Denmark and New Zealand, in first place, scored 87 points out of 100.
Demonstration against the government of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on September 1, 2019 in Mexico City. (ANTONIO NAVA / AFP via Getty Images)
"Although the recent Global Corruption Barometer: Latin America and the Caribbean highlights the purchase of votes and other corruption problems in Mexico, a recent anti-corruption reform, along with a new office of the legally autonomous attorney general are positive changes," says the International Transparency report ”.
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In this regard, the secretary of the Public Service of Mexico, Irma Eréndira Sandoval, said that the increase in points in the index is "the product of a strategy that gives results."
In a statement, the Government of Mexico celebrated the results in the ranking and said they are the reflection of the anti-corruption policy that has as key factors “the fight against conflicts of interest, consider corruption and electoral fraud as serious crimes and the fight against impunity ”, based on recommendations from Transparency International.
Canada, although it is the country with the best score in the Americas, in 12th place, with 77 points, fell four positions compared to last year and seven compared to 2012, so Transparency International included it among the “ countries to watch, ”along with Angola and Saudi Arabia.
Venezuela, again, is in the last places of the index, with a score of 16, as well as Afghanistan, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea. It was only above Yemen, Syria, South Sudan and Somalia.
This is the ranking in the region:
12. Canada - 77 points
21 Uruguay - 71 points
26. Chile - 67 points
29. Bahamas - 64 points
30. Barbados - 62 points
44. Costa Rica - 56 points
48. Dominica - 55 points
48. Saint Lucia - 55 points
51. Granada - 53 points
60. Cuba - 48 points
66. Argentina - 45 points
70. Suriname - 44 points
74. Jamaica - 43 points
85. Guyana - 40 points
85. Trinidad and Tobago - 40 points
93. Ecuador - 38 points
96. Colombia - 37 points
101. Panama - 36 points
101. Peru - 36 points
106. Brazil - 35 points
113. El Salvador - 34 points
123. Bolivia - 31 points
130. Mexico - 29 points
137. Dominican Republic - 28 points
137. Paraguay - 28 points
146. Guatemala - 26 points
146. Honduras - 26 points
161. Nicaragua - 22 points
168. Haiti - 18 points
173. Venezuela - 16
International Transparency