Slew of corruption cases mar nations' reputations
When the former Costa Rican president and ex-secretary general of the Organization of American States Miguel Angel Rodríguez exited from an airplane in handcuffs earlier this month, Costa Ricans could not help but have mixed emotions. Their country, long deemed a bastion of honesty amid a wasteland of corruption, was embarrassed as Rodríguez was carted away, accused of taking kickbacks just like many of his Latin American colleagues have been accused of taking for years. Full Story