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Venezuela among the countries with poor governance

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Venezuela, together with Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Belarus and Eritrea, is one of the countries with poor performance worldwide, according to the report on Worldwide Governance Indicators published by the World Bank on a yearly basis.

Developing countries have made significant progress in their fight against corruption but, in general terms, the quality of governance all over the world has not improved in the last decade, said on Monday the World Bank.

According to the annual survey, which aggregates data from 35 sources and covers 212 countries and territories, countries such as Norway and New Zealand recorded the best performance.


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04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."