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The organization Transparency International (TI), based in Berlin, presented this Tuesday the 31st edition of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), which measures corruption in the public sector. In its annual report it assigned Venezuela a score of 10 points out of 100, the third worst and only surpassed by Somalia and South Sudan.
This index determines a rating on a scale from 0 (high corruption) to 100 (very low corruption) and classifies 182 countries and territories through data obtained from 13 independent expert sources.
Spain, on the other hand, is in 49th position in the global CPI ranking, falling three positions compared to the previous year. It occupies the same position as Cyprus and Fiji, one above Italy and two places below Portugal.
The score of Venezuela is lower than the American average, of 42 points out of 100, and also that of countries with “non-democratic regimes” which obtain an average score of 32.
The report identified the South American country as one of the “full autocracies” of the world, where “corruption is systemic and manifests itself at all levels.
“In Venezuela, leaders have stripped control institutions of almost all independence. They have also used state-owned companies for their personal benefit, including the giant state oil company, PDVSA“, is stated in the document.
According to the text, the Venezuelan oil company “has lost more than ten billion dollars due to a currency exchange scheme and a cryptocurrency program.” Venezuela is in a group of countries with “sustained declines” in the ranking since 2012, a group that includes other countries such as Syria, Hungary and South Sudan.
“Despite the different contexts, these countries show a long-term, structural erosion of integrity systems driven by democratic retreat, institutional weakening or deep-rooted clientelism networks,” the text noted.
The report highlighted that countries with indexes below 25 “are mostly countries affected by conflict and with high levels of repression.” The other American country located among the last ten positions is Nicaraguawith 14 points, and five positions above Venezuela.
On the contrary, the CPI ranking is led by Denmark, with 89 points; Finland with 88; and Singapore with 84. The Latin American countries with the best indexes were Uruguay (63 points), Chile (63) and Costa Rica (56).