Ecuador faces in 2025 the crucial challenge of dismantling an entrenched system of institutionalized corruption that has captured the state for decades.
Effective anti-corruption efforts bring to light schemes that were previously invisible, causing an artificial increase in the perception of the problem.
Over the years, organized crime has demonstrated an astonishing ability to adapt and evolve. Now, the so-called "fifth wave" threatens to take it to an even more sophisticated, influential, and global level.
Procuring joins the long list of very serious crimes for which officials or members of the Peruvian Parliament are being investigated by the justice system.
The recent cancellation announcement of the extradition agreement seems to be due to the government's knowledge that the U.S. ambassador was acting so that the American justice system would open files against officials close to the president.