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January 2008

interview of the month

Rafael Espada, Vice President of the Republic of Guatemala

On 14 January, Rafael Espada stepped into office as vice president of Guatemala, alongside Alvaro Colom Caballeros, the new president and leader of the social-democratic party National Union of Hope (UNE). The UNE party won the closely run 2007 presidential election on 9 September with 52.7 percent of the votes, making it Guatemala's first left-wing government in 53 years. Transparency Watch was able to catch up with Espada to ask him about the fight against corruption in Guatemala and the region, and how the new government plans to counter the problem. >> read more

spotlight story

Integrity Awards 2007: inspiration and encouragement

The diverse approaches to countering the many faces of corruption are exemplified by the 2007 Integrity Awards winners – a Vietnamese grass roots activist, Le Hien Duc, and a leading legal expert working against international bribery, Professor Mark Pieth. >> read more

Anti-Corruption Work Around the World

corruption in the news

Transparency International’s national chapter TI Georgia has been monitoring the potential misuse of administrative resources during the pre-election period of the presidential elections on 5 January. >> read more

To assess the situation at the national level, Transparency International undertook National Integrity System (NIS) country studies in seven Southern African countries. >> read more

Transparency International chapters and partners took part in the 12th expert meeting of the Follow-up Mechanism of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (IACAC) in December. >> read more

Violent protests erupted in Kenya following the announcement of Mwai Kibaki’s victory in the presidential election on 30 December >> read more

Newly elected ANC president, Jacob Zuma, has been charged by the South African National Prosecuting Authority with corruption >> read more

As part of the United Nation’s (UN) budget discussions at the end of 2007, the General Assembly agreed to extend the mandate of the UN Procurement Task Force (PTF) for a further twelve months. >> read more

News from the Anti-Corruption Movement
Reports from Transparency International’s national chapters, members and Secretariat. Click here to read this month's highlights. >> read more

Corruption in Quotes
"Corruption is the oil in the machinery that allows these systems to work" >> read more