Word: corruptness
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...blogs run by the daily newspapers here, some commented that justice has finally been served and wished Volz a Merry Christmas with his family back home. Most comments, however, expressed outrage at what many consider to be corrupt judicial system. "Justice here is like a snake, it only bites those who are barefoot," one reader posted, referring to popular notion here than only the poor do jail time. Similar ire was expressed by the Sandinista government's Chief Prosecutor Julio Centeno, who called the decision a "barbarity," and Human Rights Ombudsman and former guerrilla leader Omar Cabezas, who said Volz...
...political system that generated so much division and bitterness that the military was emboldened to send in its tanks. Sadly, restoring that faith is looking like a dim prospect. "This election is already well known for having almost every questionable, old politician from the bad old days of corrupt governments," commented the Bangkok Post in an editorial. Corruption appears rife. "We've had a lot of reports of vote-buying," says Montri Kiatkhamjorn, a senior officer for the Election Commission, the poll watchdog, in Isaan. "It seems like it's become the culture of this election already." Montri reckons "maybe...
...dark comedy that explores what happens when a political satirist runs for the presidency as a joke—and wins. Starring Robin Williams, the film features notable actors, including Christopher Walken, who plays Williams’s campaign manager, and Laura Linney, who works for a corrupt electronic voting machine company. The movie shows how innovative dark horse candidates have to be to catch the public’s eye. (Remind anyone of Martel-Zimmerman’s plan to abolish parliamentary procedures at UC meetings?) For those of legal age, sit back, relax, and put on your patriotic...
Some adversaries had good words for Chávez. "There's no doubt he brought necessary changes to a very corrupt Venezuela," says Juan Mejía, a head of the student movement that led the opposition to Chávez at the referendum. Indeed, it was Chávez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Néstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Chávez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results...
ADEL ADEL AL-SUBIHAWI, a prominent Shi'ite leader in Sadr City, on rampant corruption in Iraq, which was recently ranked by Transparency International as the world's third most corrupt country...