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Gustavo Coronel
**** Nicolás Maduro superó a Duterte de Filipinas y a Asad de Siria como
el gobernante más rapaz, más corrupto del planeta, el que ha hecho más
para avanzar el crimen y la corrupción en el mundo. En menos de cuatro
años ha hecho más desastres que Chávez en
doce años. Entre los dos, arruinaron uno de los países más prósperos de
la región latinoamericana. Y como bailan los narcos!
Pareja victoriosa del año
ANUNCIO DEL OCCRP
Venezuelan
President Nicolás Maduro has been named 2016’s Person of the Year by
the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
The award recognizes the individual who has done the most in the world to advance organized criminal activity and corruption.
A panel of eight journalists, scholars and
activists expert in fighting corruption chose Maduro for the global
award on the strength of his corrupt and oppressive reign, so rife with
mismanagement
that citizens of his oil-rich nation are literally starving and begging
for medicines.
As
murder and crime in Venezuela has skyrocketed and political oppression
has intensified, the president and his inner circle, including wife
Cilia Flores, have extracted millions from state
coffers to cover the patronage that keeps him in power.
The Financial Times dubbed him Venezuela’s “Lord of Misrule” in dissecting his performance. Reporters Without Borders named him a “Press Freedom Predator”
for his ingenuity
in silencing critical media. He has had friends buy up key outlets,
orchestrated newsprint shortages, and criminalized articles that “call
into question legitimately constituted authority.”
“It’s
been a big year for Maduro,” said Drew Sullivan, editor of OCCRP and
one of the judges. “I think this year has been the tipping point and his
negligence, incompetence and corruption
are the cause. When a country’s leader can watch his people starve and
still oversee a government stealing $70 billion a year all while his
family deals drugs, it’s a special kind of evil. He deserves this
prize.”
Maduro,
a former bus driver and trade union leader who served as foreign
minister under President Hugo Chavez, rose to the presidency when Chavez
died in 2013. The increasingly isolated president
claims to speak to his predecessor’s spirit through a “little bird.” He
has ruled mostly by fiat, waving off legislative action and quashing
the mounting citizen protests.
In
November, a jury in New York convicted two of Flores’ nephews in a
multimillion-dollar drug scam designed to raise funds to keep the family
in power. The nephews plotted to use the presidential
hangar at a Venezuelan airport to ship 800 kilograms of cocaine to the
US through Honduras.
About OCCRP
OCCRP
is a not-for-profit consortium of regional investigative centers and
for-profit independent media stretching from Europe to Central Asia and
in Latin America. Its mission is to help
the public understand how organized crime and corruption affect their
lives and to improve reporting on corruption. OCCRP seeks to provide
in-depth investigative stories as well as the latest news pertaining to
organized crime and corruption activities around
the world. It is funded by the Open Society Foundations, USAID,
European governments and other major international donors. It has
offices in Sarajevo, Bucharest, and Tbilisi.
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