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Unending Graft Is Threatening Latin America

Date: July 30, 2005

Authors: Larry Rohter and Juan Forero

QUOTE: Brazil's scandal is just the latest reminder of the unremitting corruption that has marked Latin American politics since colonial times, when absolute rulers regarded newly conquered realms in the New World as their personal property.

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• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Democracy
      • Elections / Voting (general)
    • Executive Branch (President/Prime Minister/King)
      • Dictatorship
    • Government scandals/corruption
  • Politics (General)

• Central America / Caribbean
  • Costa Rica
  • Guatemala
  • Nicaragua

• North America
  • Mexico

• South America
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Ecuador
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Venezuela

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