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How corrupted is your country?
Definition of Corruption:
- corruptness: lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- putrescence: in a state of progressive putrefaction
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; “the luxury and corruption among the upper classes”; “moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration”; “its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity”; “Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction”
- destroying someone’s (or some group’s) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; “corruption of a minor”; “the big city’s subversion of rural innocence”
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); “he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering”
Transparency International released (some time ago) the report on their project – Corruption Perceptions Index 2007: Persistent corruption in low-income countries requires global action
It has 179 countries with 1 being the less corrupted.
On the top 10 of less corrupted countries we have: Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada and Norway.
The ten more corrupted are: Somalia, Myanmar, Iraq Haiti, Uzbekistan, Tonga, Sudan, Chad, Afghanistan and Laos.
Portugal is on the number 29, Uruguay on the 25 and Argentina on the 105th position.
Sao tome and Principe the country I’m work on at the moment is on 118.
Talk at the University of Peniche: International Whaling Commission – History Corruption and Possible Solutions
Talk given at the University of Peniche, Portugal. The theme of the caucus was “emerge and submerged”. There were various talks around different subjects, such as fisheries, artificial aquariums, genetics, animals affected by petroleum, and 3 speeches on marine mammals. I was presenting such a topic, “The International Whaling Commission – History, Corruption and Possible Solutions”. Insight was given of the NGO work on the theme, strategies, actions and aims. Emphasis was also given at the current situation of the IWC that may jeopardizes its future, Japan and its loophole along with the still unsustainable whaling taking place in the world’s ocean is cause of much concern. Some videos and images were shown to illustrate situations and processes. The public showed interest in the theme and many questions were made in the end.
Uncorrupted!
I’m often criticised because I seem to always make detractions about my own country, Portugal. The fact I’ve left it to study abroad in the UK doesn’t help my patriotism either. And since I was gone away I tend to move quite a lot and each year I stay less and less time in my homeland.
I love Portugal , its people – warm-hearted, fun loving, true pure latino blood – however I don’t like at all the state of our society nowadays.
Being abroad most of the time doesn’t give much space to be in contact with the Portuguese daily life, and when I hear about it is on
the not so bright side. However I much admit I should look more into my roots, and what is happening around them.
Currently we are the poorest country in Western-Europe and one of the top penniless of all European Union. I left my country to arrive at the UK , where I had more privileges by being Portuguese than in my motherland. I didn’t have to pay fees, dentist, ophthalmologist, medicines, and was very much helped my a strange society.
Last year’s scandal about all the paedophiles that molested all those innocent children, being them people from the media, government and charity institutions made me feel sick!
To add to the state of affairs we protect the private corporate interests more than of our own people.
We are a true 3rd world industrialized “wanna-be” nation who thinks to be very smart, always looking at our past full of blood-shed, and feeling so proud about it!
The people leading our country always try to use their positions and influence to their own privilege, ignoring the entire society that day to day is more hungry, poor, and hopeless!
Since 1984 we don’t have anyone charged of corruption convicted at the country’s administrative level! We had to be formaly adverted by the European Parliament; stating that Portugal does not possess any proper system to fight back corruption.
Interesting…
We have a deficient economy and self-destructive governments, but ‘hey!’ we have no CORRUPTION! How strange is that?
Having said that, who are you and what have to done so far that allows you to judge me? And by the way… I never felt too much of your nationalism!