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NICARAGUA receives an overall "Weak" rating in the 2006 Global Integrity Index. The Index assesses national anti-corruption policies and practices in countries around the world. For a printer-friendly .PDF version of this report click here.
This peer-reviewed country report includes:
Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for all 290 Integrity Indicators.
Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.
Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.
Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.
Global Integrity country reports are generated by an in-country team comprising a lead journalist (who prepares the Reporter's Notebook), a lead researcher (who initially scores the Integrity Indicators), and three to five peer reviewers. Global Integrity staff in Washington coordinate the input from all team members and are responsible for final content. For a full description of our methodology and research process please click here.
Reporter's Notebook
Carlos Roiz and Ernesto Cantillano died instantly on the night of December 11, 2005. As Carlos Cantillano turned left at a green light, a sport utility vehicle, traveling more than 100 miles an hour, crashed into his car. Witnesses rushed to the scene. The driver of the SUV and his companion emerged from the vehicle nervous but unscathed. And by the time emergency workers arrived, the two men were nowhere to be found.
Some hours later, a man was arrested, brought into a police station in Managua, and charged with the manslaughter of Ernesto Cantillano and Carlos Roiz. The problem: witnesses did not recognize him as the driver of the SUV. Meanwhile, Francisco Lopez, treasurer of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN-Frente de Sandinista Liberación Nacional) had removed the cars from the scene of the accident. The man that witnesses say is the real driver - Rafael Ortega-Murrillo, the son of former FSLN President Daniel Ortega - had vanished.
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