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3. Transparency International refuses to comply with NGO law

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2013, 05:06 PM

Apr 2013

"The Moscow office of the anti-corruption coalition Transparency International has issued a statement announcing its refusal to comply with the recently passed law on foreign agents. "

And the reason is because they don't want to have to be accountable for how they spend their money.

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NGO: Venezuela is the most corrupt country in Latin America [View all] Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 OP

Stopped reading here: ocpagu Apr 2013 #1

you can read it again where Paraguay is farther down the list Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 #2

Transparency International won't convince me... ocpagu Apr 2013 #5

no, its Uruguay my friend, it won't say Paraguay is n/t Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 #7

Transparency International refuses to comply with NGO law Tempest Apr 2013 #3

USAID and NGO transparency: When in doubt, hide the data Tempest Apr 2013 #4

Lol naaman fletcher Apr 2013 #6

Transparency international controversial reports on Venezuela ocpagu Apr 2013 #8

Thank you for the citations. Tempest Apr 2013 #9

And thank you for your links too. ocpagu Apr 2013 #10

Same thing happened in another forum Tempest Apr 2013 #11

TI is not a NGO reorg Apr 2013 #12

All we need to know about these parasites is that in 2005, Enron was their official sponsor Catherina Apr 2013 #13

Great definition. ocpagu Apr 2013 #20

"their funding sources are not obscure at all, though" Tempest Apr 2013 #14

I suspect they don't want to disclose their contacts reorg Apr 2013 #16

I'm all for discussing TI naaman fletcher Apr 2013 #17

easy reorg Apr 2013 #18

Once the ICIJ Venezuela documents come to light... joshcryer Apr 2013 #15

I thought corruption was chavismo Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 #19

Nope. ocpagu Apr 2013 #21

what's chavismo then? Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 #22

Social spending is not buying votes. joshcryer Apr 2013 #23