Peru’s fight against corruption: ‘Encouraging’ or ‘horrible’?
For Gino Costa, a past member of Peru’s Congress and a former United Nations’ human rights official, Peru’s recent history of corruption has been “terrible and horrible.”
But it has also been encouraging.
“We’ve had all this corruption that has been so pervasive,” Mr. Costa says. “But then there’s the encouraging part. ... We have had chief prosecutors do their work, pursuing cases all the way to the top; we have prosecuting teams that go on investigating when powerful politicians try to stop them.” And of critical importance, he says, the Peruvian public supports those fighting to root out corruption.
Both the “terrible” and “encouraging” of Peru’s history of corruption are getting fresh attention in the wake of the December arrest and
