The OECD Slaps Mexico with an Embarrassing Corruption Score: 34th Out of 34 Daniel McDonald - DailyNewsSX
go to original February 3, 2016

The OECD is a global club of industrial democracies organized for cooperation and development. Mexico is its most corrupt member, ranking 34th out of 34.

The G-20 is a forum for advanced economies. Mexico is the third most-corrupt nation in that group, outranking only Russia and Argentina.

NAFTA is a trinational free trade agreement. One of its three signatories — Mexico —ranks 95th among 167 nations on the corruption scale (lowest the cleanest). That’s 86 and 79 places worse than NAFTA partners Canada (ninth) and the United States (16th).

Mexico’s corruption score on a 0-100 scale — 100 being the cleanest — is 35. Anything under 50, says Transparency International, the global anti-corruption NGO, indicates “a serious corruption problem.”

Mexico, then, has a serious corruption problem.

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