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Central America’s kingpins of graft

Eric L. Olson

Eric Olson is quoted in this article about the corruption cases of former President Francisco Flores in El Salvador and Mario Zelaya, former head of the Honduran Institute of Social Security.

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This year’s two most wanted men in Central America were not drug barons, but a former president and a surgeon.

Both are accused of embezzling millions of dollars in state money meant for earthquake victims and poor patients on social security...

“This is not just ordinary corruption,” said Eric Olson, Associate Director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center. “Its impact on people’s lives is probably greater than that of any drug trafficker.”

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Eric L. Olson

Eric L. Olson

Global Fellow;
Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Seattle International Foundation
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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more