Raising this subject, long unspoken in Central America, is like opening a spigot from which a torrent gushes. Also included were representatives of organizations including Transparency International, the Carter Center, and Controllers-General from the region. Steering committees for the WBI course, Controlling Corruption and Improving Governance, have been established in Bolivia and Paraguay, as well as seven African countries. But this is the first introduction of the concept in the six Central American countries and the Dominican Republic. But it is the involvement of civil society that ensures that such a plan is credible.
Civil society includes the media.
The courses were delivered by investigative reporters Sandra Crucianelli of Bah a Blanca, Argentina, and WBI consultant Rod MacDonell, of Montreal, Canada. That's why WBI has organized over 25 workshops for nearly a thousand journalists in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and now Latin America. Reviews from the journalists themselves, typically a skeptical group, were positive. I learned that journalists from many countries face the same problems of censorship and the same struggle against corruption, so we were able to create some solidarity, thanks to this course. To find out more about Latin American, click here .