At the end of 2020, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) sat down with members of one of Argentina’s leading independent think tanks, Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC), to discuss the organization’s work and how it relates to CIPE’s anti-corruption efforts in Latin America. Public Management… Read More
In late 2020, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) sat down with leaders of Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa (IBGC), Brazil’s premier corporate governance organization, to discuss its work and connection to CIPE’s anti-corruption efforts in Latin America. In this interview, IBGC’s Advocacy Manager, Danilo Gregório, and Advocacy Analyst, Laís Piasentini Oliva, share the… Read More
The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) recently sat down with members of one of Mexico’s leading nonpartisan think tanks, México Evalúa, to discuss the organization’s work and how it relates to CIPE’s anti-kleptocracy efforts in Latin America. Regulation and Economic Competition Program Coordinator, María Fernanda Ballesteros and Institutional Development Officer, Liliane Mendoza, shared how… Read More
The fate of El Salvador’s new anti-corruption commission is in doubt. Its biggest friend or most challenging foe will be the politician who founded it two years ago: El Salvador’s 39-year old populist president Nayib Bukele. Bukele rose to power on an anti-corruption platform aimed at correcting the abuse that has haunted El Salvador’s recent… Read More
To say Peru has had a brush with corruption would be an understatement. Beginning with Alberto Fujimori in the late 1990s, the problem of corruption has snowballed with all four subsequent presidents embroiled in the Lava Jato affair that swept across the continent in 2014. From Alejandro Toledo to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, each head of… Read More
Recently, I went to Pucallpa, Peru, a place where highway Route 5N ends and the Amazonian jungle takes over. Over a million people live in Pucallpa, which is situated in the heart of Peru’s tropical forest region of Ucayali. Peru’s forested regions have recently made international headlines for breaking scandals around deforestation and illegal harvesting… Read More