Electing judges has undermined Bolivia’s justice system’s legitimacy and independence—and weakened the country’s rule of law.
"Long-term investors who know Brazil likely won’t be swayed for now," says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to The Wall Street Journal.
Policies to fight graft are a low priority in both countries and have lost momentum in the region as a whole.
Prosecutors’ willingness and capacity to investigate crimes is the nation’s judicial system’s weakest link, writes an expert.
Crime and politics are becoming more entangled, undermining the region’s stability, an expert writes.
Despite former President Juan Orlando Hernández’s conviction in the U.S., progress on corruption in his country has been slow as a UN commission hangs in the balance.
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