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Weekly Report - 14 January 2016 (WR-16-02)
CHILE: Image tainted by corruption scandals
Chile’s reputation as the model republic of Latin America has sustained some heavy blows in recent months. Perennial regional leader in the corruption perceptions index (CPI) compiled annually by the NGO Transparency International, and almost every other regional league table, Chile had already been brought back down to earth by a series of campaign-financing and influence-trafficking scandals last year when along came another concatenation of corruption scandals involving price-fixing cartels, firstly toilet paper then poultry and now gynaecologists.
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