Corruption

Why several US congressmen asked for an investigation of Rodolfo Hernández to be opened in that country

Why several US congressmen asked for an investigation of Rodolfo Hernández to be opened in that country

Six congressmen from the Democratic Party called this Thursday to open an investigation into USA against the Colombian presidential candidate…

Women’s Day: Women march with photos of rapists, femicides and corrupt prosecutors in Bolivia

Hundreds of women marched this Monday in bolivia carrying photographs of accused or convicted of rape, of judges and prosecutors,…

Swiss bank Credit Suisse kept fortunes of people linked to corruption

A data leak reveals that for years the bank Swiss Credit Suisse he kept fortunes of people linked to corruption…

Why the US is asking for the extradition of the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández

In a surprising movement, this Monday the request for the extradition of the former president of Honduras, John Orlando Hernandezby…

Aida Merlano and Álex Char: The corruption scandal with love affairs that shakes politics in Colombia

A corruption scandal sprinkled with marital infidelity and blackmail shakes Colombia for the revelations of the former congresswoman Aida Merlanoimprisoned…

Guatemala puts former President Pérez Molina on the bench for corruption

The ex-president Guatemalan Otto Pérez Molina (2012-2015) sat on Monday before the defendants' bench, six years after his resignation and…

The Swiss prosecutor files an investigation into the US $ 100 million that Juan Carlos I received from Saudi Arabia

The Swiss justice announced this Monday that it closed the investigation into the assets of the Spanish King Emeritus Juan…

The Brazilian Prosecutor’s Office requests a statute of limitations in the case of the OAS luxury triplex for which Lula was imprisoned for almost two years

The Attorney General's Office of Brazil recognized on Tuesday the prescription of one of the cases in which the former…

The start of the trial in the US against Álex Saab, the supposed greatest figurehead of Maduro, is delayed

The trial of the Colombian-Venezuelan businessman Alex Saab, considered the front man of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and…

They reveal video of the secretary of Andrés Manuel López Obrador depositing irregular money

Alejandro Esquer, current private secretary of the president Mexican, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, appeared this Friday in a video depositing…

Maduro admits that corruption is worse for Venezuela “than the gringo blockade”

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas MaduroHe admitted this Wednesday that "the indolence, the incapacity, the corruption, the inefficiency" that he…

Cristina Kirchner dismissed in a case for alleged corruption in public works

The Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner and his two sons, Florencia and Máximo, were dismissed for non-existence of a crime…

Álex Saab, Maduro’s alleged biggest front man, pleads not guilty of money laundering in the US

The Colombian-Venezuelan businessman Alex Saab, alleged front man of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, pleaded this Monday in a…

Ecuador’s legislative commission targets Lasso in Pandora Papers case

The Constitutional Guarantees Commission of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Ecuador pointed this Friday to the president of the country,…

Emilio Lozoya: judge orders the imprisonment of the main witness in bribes from Odebrecht in Mexico

A judge of Mexico imposed this Wednesday, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office, preventive detention on the former director…

US Prosecutor’s Office asks to dismiss 7 of the 8 money laundering charges against Álex Saab

The Prosecutor's Office of USA He asked a Miami court on Monday to dismiss seven of the eight charges related…

Former president of the Football Federation of Panama is called to trial for laundering

A court in Panama called the former president of the Panamanian Football Federation (Fepafut) Ariel Alvarado to trial, for alleged…

What major political scandals and episodes of corruption have occurred in Latin America in recent decades?

Argentina. The resignation of President Fernando de la Rúa in December 2001, in the midst of a social outbreak that…

Union denounces that aid is prevented from entering a children’s hospital in Venezuela

The Venezuelan union Monitor Salud denounced this Sunday that a shipment of food donated by the NGO Santi and his…

Pandora Papers certify the importance of collaborative journalism

Journalists participating in the Pandora Papers, The deep cross-border investigation that revealed the concealment of wealth in tax havens from…