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On Tuesday, October 11, Peru’s Attorney General Patricia Benavides filed a constitutional complaint against President Pedro Castillo before Congress, hours after a raid on the homes of legislators, officials, friends and the president’s sister. Presidents in Peru have immunity and Read More

In recent days, the Guacamaya hackers once again demonstrated Latin America’s vulnerability in terms of cybersecurity, stealing and publicly exposing relevant information from public institutions in countries such as Mexico, Chile, and Colombia. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) had already Read More

Next Sunday, October 2, general elections will be held in Brazil, where the new president and vice president will be elected, as well as governors of the country’s 27 federative entities, the complete renewal of the Chamber of Deputies, the Read More

An Ecuadorian prosecutor was shot dead in Guayaquil’s middle of the street on Monday, September 19. He was Edgar Escobar Zambrano, who throughout his career investigated cases of murder, drug trafficking, false information, and robberies, among others, and who was Read More

The Colombian Attorney General’s Office indicated that, through an investigation, six members of the National Police were captured who were allegedly involved in a case of corruption inside the Fontibón police station in Bogotá. Specifically, they allegedly received monthly payments Read More

The president of the Peruvian Congress, Lady Camones, was dismissed last Monday, September 5, after the plenary approved a censure motion against her. This, was after hearing audios with the head of her party Alianza Para el Progreso (APP), César Read More

Over the past weekend, three people were murdered in different neighborhoods of Montevideo, bringing the total number of homicides in Uruguay since August 23 to 11. The neighborhoods of Peñarol, Manga, Marconi, and Piedras Blancas are some of the places Read More

At the end of the pleadings phase carried out by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Argentina against the Vice-President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in the trial for alleged irregularities in the awarding of public work, known as the Vialidad Case, Read More

On Sunday, August 14, an explosion shook the residents of the Cristo del Consuelo neighborhood in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The attack left five people dead, around 20 injured, and eight homes destroyed. According to the police, the attack Read More

Argentina’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has begun the pleadings phase against Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández, who is being prosecuted for the alleged crime of illicit association and fraud against the public administration, in the case known as the Vialidad Case. Read More

The Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, a critic of President Daniel Ortega’s regime, reported that its staff, including journalists and photographers, left the country for fear of imprisonment so that they will operate from exile in digital form. “The persecution that Read More

The former secretary general of President Pedro Castillo, Bruno Pacheco, turned himself into the Special Team of Prosecutors against Corruption of Power, who was on the run during investigations of alleged influence peddling in the president’s entourage. He is currently Read More

Through an official statement, the US State Department announced the “public designation” of former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes (2013-2018), being declared as “significantly corrupt”, banning him and his family from entering the United States. Secretary of State Antony Blinken charges Read More

In 2014, the Lava Jato case was uncovered, the largest corruption network in Latin America, which involved Brazilian companies in money laundering, bribery, and illicit financing of political campaigns. This case was revealed when the investigation of a car laundering Read More

The former vice-president of Banco Hipotecario de El Salvador, Carlos Enrique Cruz Arana, confessed that he collaborated with former president Mauricio Funes in the crime of laundering money from the fiscal coffers. Cruz Arana submitted to an abbreviated process and Read More

Last Thursday, June 30, the U.S. State Department sanctioned former Colombian senator Luis Alberto Gil Castillo for “participating in significant acts of corruption”, prohibiting him from entering U.S. territory. Specifically, he is accused of accepting bribes from a group considered Read More

Ernest & Young, an audit, finance, and advisory firm in different areas, admitted that dozens of employees of its audit unit cheated on the ethics part of the CPA exam and that the firm also misled U.S. regulators investigating this Read More

Yesterday AS/COA and Control Risks presented the fourth edition of the Anti-Corruption Capacity Index (CCC) which explores the capacity of 15 Latin American countries to detect, punish and prevent corruption. The CCC Index analyzes 14 key variables, such as the Read More

As part of the Summit of the Americas, the IV CEO Summit of Americas was held last week, where business leaders from across the region gathered to promote innovative and practical solutions for a better future throughout the continent. On Read More

After conducting a crisis investigation in El Salvador, Amnesty International denounced, last Thursday, that within the framework of the emergency regime declared by the government of Nayib Bukele, “massive human rights violations have been committed, including thousands of arbitrary detentions Read More