One of the most interesting things about the latest 174-country ranking of world corruption released recently by the Berlin-based Trans-parency International monitoring group was that Barbados, Chile and Uruguay ranked alongside the United States among the world’s 20 most honest countries.
While virtually all media headlines on the ranking released December 5 focused on the most corrupt countries of the world, and of each region, the fact that there were three Latin American and Caribbean countries among the world’s cleanest nations — and that they consistently rank that way in these annual indexes — went almost unnoticed.
It’s something that deserves closer attention, because it defies
