Anti-corruption efforts examined.

• Author: Conaway, Janelle
• Position: OAS/INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM - Brief Article

GOVERNMENT anti-corruption experts from the region analyzed progress against corruption in six countries--the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago--during a meeting at OAS headquarters in March.

The reports on these countries can be found on the OAS website (www.oas.org), along with previous reports adopted under the Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption. Twenty-eight OAS member states currently participate in the process, which was begun to strengthen countries' compliance with the anticorruption treaty.

Guadalupe Cajias, Bolivia's Presidential Representative Against Corruption, who chaired the recent meeting, noted that in recent months there had been "a greater and more dynamic...