Wanted—a crusade to purify public life

摘要

Argentina's former president, Carlos Menem, is under house arrest on suspicion of involvement in an arms-trading scandal. Paraguay's president, Luis Gonzalez Macchi, who was recently discovered to be driving a stolen BMW car, faces calls for his impeachment over fraud allegations, as does Brazil's Senate president, Jader Barbalho. In Peru, more than 60 people—among them politicians, judges, generals and businessmen-have been detained, caught in the web of corruption spun by the regime of Alberto Fujimori, who was ousted as president last year. In Colombia the national auditor's office reported this week that corrupt officials creamed off $27m last year from the education budget. In Mexico President Vicente Fox has launched a plethora of initiatives to crackdown on endemic corruption.