Ecuador holds rank of 62 among corrupt countries in the world

Chile and Uruguay are the leaders in transparency in Latin America, while Venezuela and Paraguay are perceived as the most corrupt, according to a report published yesterday by the German organization Transparency International (TI). In the 2011 edition of its traditional Index of Corruption Perception (CPI), only three of the 20 countries in Latin America Area approved perceived transparency of its public sector.

On a scale from 10 (highly transparent) to 0 (highly corrupt), Chile (7.2) ranked 22 out of 183 countries surveyed, the Uruguay (7.9), 25, and Puerto Rico (5.6 ), 39, while Nicaragua (2.5), Paraguay (2.2) and Venezuela (1.9) occupied caboose at positions 134, 154 and 172, respectively.

Ecuador, meanwhile obtained a score of 2.7, placing it in the ninth most corrupt countries in the hemisphere, the seventh in Latin America and 62 worldwide. However, the country gained 0.2 points more than in 2010, when his score was 2.5. For 2011, the country, ranking 120 of the world rankings (from best to worst). Read Article