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Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has been named 2016\u2019s Person of the Year by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).\u00a0The award recognizes the individual who has done the most in the world to advance organized criminal activity and corruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By OCCRP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A panel of eight journalists, scholars and activists expert in fighting corruption chose Maduro for the global award on the strength of his corrupt and oppressive reign, so rife with mismanagement that citizens of his oil-rich nation are literally starving and begging for medicines.<\/p>\n

As murder and crime in Venezuela has skyrocketed and political oppression has intensified, the president and his inner circle, including wife Cilia Flores, have extracted millions from state coffers to cover the patronage that keeps him in power.<\/p>\n

The Financial Times dubbed him Venezuela\u2019s \u201cLord of Misrule\u201d in dissecting his performance. Reporters Without Borders named him a \u201cPress Freedom Predator\u201d for his ingenuity in silencing critical media. He has had friends buy up key outlets, orchestrated newsprint shortages, and criminalized articles that \u201ccall into question legitimately constituted authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a big year for Maduro,\u201d said Drew Sullivan, editor of OCCRP and one of the judges. \u201cI think this year has been the tipping point and his negligence, incompetence and corruption are the cause. When a country\u2019s leader can watch his people starve and still oversee a government stealing $70 billion a year all while his family deals drugs, it\u2019s a special kind of evil. He deserves this prize.\u201d
\nMaduro, a former bus driver and trade union leader who served as foreign minister under President Hugo Chavez, rose to the presidency when Chavez died in 2013. The increasingly isolated president claims to speak to his predecessor\u2019s spirit through a \u201clittle bird.\u201d He has ruled mostly by fiat, waving off legislative action and quashing the mounting citizen protests.<\/p>\n

In November, a jury in New York convicted two of Flores\u2019 nephews in a multimillion-dollar drug scam designed to raise funds to keep the family in power. The nephews plotted to use the presidential hangar at a Venezuelan airport to ship 800 kilograms of cocaine to the US through Honduras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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