Reporter’s Notebook Colombia: Corruption’s Family Ties

Commercials showed humble peasant families as the people who’d benefit from a new government subsidy program intended for farmers. Soon after, though, entire families of campaign donors were receiving millionaire subsidies. Beauty queens and extradited criminals tagged along as well. In the 2009 Reporter’s Notebook: Colombia, award-winning reporter Ignacio Gómez tells a story about how…

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Lack of Political Will Hinders Access to Information Regimes in Africa

The Carter Center held a Freedom of Information (FOIA) summit in Africa last month to discuss the continent’s continuing struggles with citizen access to information. What was agreed upon? Tracking with findings from previous Global Integrity Reports, participants noted a need to go beyond broad rights to information (as guaranteed in the constitutions of many…

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