Just to make you chuckle a little bit about Nicaragua

The Tico Times is reporting that the Nicaraguan government has declared itself corruption-free. How does it know that the government is free of corruption? Well, in true Sandinista rationality (que es muy parecida a la bolibanana), no government official has been punished for corruption...therefore, there is no corruption.

Right. This is what I really look like, and I ask you to believe me because I said so. A very silly comparison, but that is essentially what the Comptroller is asking you to do.

So, who would punish the government officials for corruption? Well, conventional thinking suggests that there would be a disinterested ministry of transparency which would denounce this sort of thing, and that the government would then take the appropriate action, though let's just say I have my doubts as to if this --or similar processes-- would actually take place in Ortega's Nicaragua.

On a less snarky note, this government expects me to believe that it went from being the fifth-most corrupt government in the region with the ninth-most corrupt individual in the ENTIRE WORLD in the form of Arnoldo Alemán, to being corruption-free. That's a huge stretch for me even if I were able to put an iota of trust in the government.