**** Nicolás Maduro superó a Duterte de Filipinas y a Asad de Siria como el gobernante más rapaz, más corrupto del planeta, el que ha hecho más para avanzar el crimen y la corrupción en el mundo. En menos de cuatro años ha hecho más desastres que Chávez en doce años. Entre los dos, arruinaron uno de los países más prósperos de la región latinoamericana. Y como bailan los narcos!
Pareja victoriosa del año
ANUNCIO DEL OCCRP
Venezuelan President
Nicolás Maduro has been named 2016’s Person of the Year by the Organized Crime
and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
The award recognizes
the individual who has done the most in the world to advance organized criminal
activity and corruption.
A panel of eight journalists, scholars and
activists expert in fighting corruption chose Maduro for the global award on
the strength of his corrupt and oppressive reign, so rife with mismanagement
that citizens of his oil-rich nation are literally starving and begging for
medicines.
As murder and crime in Venezuela has
skyrocketed and political oppression has intensified, the president and his
inner circle, including wife Cilia Flores, have extracted millions from state
coffers to cover the patronage that keeps him in power.
The Financial Times dubbed him Venezuela’s “Lord
of Misrule” in dissecting his performance. Reporters Without Borders named
him a “Press Freedom Predator” for his ingenuity in silencing critical
media. He has had friends buy up key outlets, orchestrated newsprint shortages,
and criminalized articles that “call into question legitimately constituted
authority.”
“It’s been a big year for Maduro,” said Drew
Sullivan, editor of OCCRP and one of the judges. “I think this year has been
the tipping point and his negligence, incompetence and corruption are the
cause. When a country’s leader can watch his people starve and still oversee a
government stealing $70 billion a year all while his family deals drugs, it’s a
special kind of evil. He deserves this prize.”
Maduro, a former bus driver and trade union
leader who served as foreign minister under President Hugo Chavez, rose to the
presidency when Chavez died in 2013. The increasingly isolated president claims
to speak to his predecessor’s spirit through a “little bird.” He has ruled
mostly by fiat, waving off legislative action and quashing the mounting citizen
protests.
In November, a jury in New York convicted two
of Flores’ nephews in a multimillion-dollar drug scam designed to raise funds
to keep the family in power. The nephews plotted to use the presidential hangar
at a Venezuelan airport to ship 800 kilograms of cocaine to the US through
Honduras.
About
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as well as the latest news pertaining to organized crime and corruption
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