Transparency International
Cuba scored 4.3 for perceived corruption in Transparency International's 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index. The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) rates countries from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 10 ("highly clean"), reflecting perceived levels of corruption. Cuba scored below some Caribbean island nations such as Saint Lucia (7.1) and Barbados (7.0) and some Latin American nations such as Chile (6.9) and Uruguay (6.9), but above most other Latin American nations, such as El Salvador (3.9), Colombia (3.8) and Mexico (3.6) and Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago (3.6) and Jamaica (3.1). Cuba has been assessed by the CPI since 2003, with scores ranging from 3.7 to 4.6.
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