Invasive Increase In Corruption In Latin America

Invasive increase in corruption in Latin America

Introduction

One of the international corruption measurement indices called International Transparency CPI in 2018 in its results places Mexico in the 138th place in 168 countries and with a qualification of 28 points of 100 possible (image 1), where The closest to zero score indicates that the country is highly corrupt and 100 that is a highly clean country (Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index). Comparing the data with the year 2015, Mexico was positioned in the 95th place and with 31 points (Table 1), that is, it has lost 3 points, indicating that the perception of corruption has increased in the last 3 years internationally.

Developing

This score affects Mexico in the sense that it can become a decisive factor in trying to attract foreign investment, because compared to other Latin American countries, Mexico shows a low performance in the fight against corruption, in addition to being found A points above countries such as Nicaragua and Guatemala, and below countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, etc. This index in addition to the fact that it allows each country to be located at the level of perception of corruption year after year, also indicates the progress or decline in the actions to combat it, in the case of Mexico it has retreated either the shares have not worked.

Remember that corruption occurs at several government levels, as well as in private initiative, indicating that the increase in corruption can be widespread or has visibly increased in a section they.

Nationally, the perception of corruption in Mexico has increased, it is such that today it appears as one of the main concerns of the population, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) places it secondly with a percentage of 56.7% greater than that of 2015 with 51%, being the insecurity and crime of the largest problem.

conclusion

Corruption being the second most important problem that the population perceives, its perception also exists by federative entity, so that there are entities where corruption is higher, such as in Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Michoacán, Guerrero, State of Mexico, Mexico, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, etc., and being Guanajuato the state with less perception of corruption; However, there is no federative entity that is free from numbers, nor a reflex zero corruption, on the contrary, it has been increasing as reflected in the population rate that had contact with a public servant, which had a value of 14,635 per Every 100,000 inhabitants in 2017, the largest figure compared to that of 2015 and 2013.