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18.4 billion pesos is the overcost the IMSS has paid on purchases made between 2008 and 2018, according to PODER's calculations based on annual weighted average prices. The Fourth Transformation has stopped publishing purchase details, while over the last two and a half years patient and family organizations have denounced shortages of vital medicines.
SEE SALUD, DINERO Y CORRUPCIÓNThe Foro Consultivo Científico y Tecnológico, A.C. was the vehicle used by academics to usurp public functions and benefit for more than 16 years from discretionary public funds of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt). The money was used to pay salaries and buy a house that they manage privately. Now, to keep its privileges, Foro A.C. is pursuing a lawsuit against Conacyt.
SEE LA MAFIA DE LA CIENCIAOn March 8 we launched a project with a gender perspective in collaboration with 15 media outlets from Latin America and Spain. We analyzed the proportion of women and men on the boards of directors of companies listed on 15 Spanish-speaking stock exchanges and Brazil. We found that on average there are 7 men for every woman. Mexico is the worst country for gender equity in this area, and Costa Rica leads the ranking with 22.43% of board seats held by women, and there is still much work to be done.
SEE MUJERESENLABOLSA.ORGGrupo México threatens residents of Sonora affected by the 2014 copper leachate spill at its Buenavista del Cobre mine with the construction of a mega tailings dam. This report led the authorities to visit the affected communities and promise them a remediation plan.
Continuing our line of work linking contracts with human rights, we carried out an investigation into how public resources are spent in disaster situations. It is a collaboration between PODER and El Intercambio, from Guatemala, supported by Hivos, for which an analysis methodology was developed that other groups are already looking into replicating.
SEE CONTRATOSDELDESASTRE.COMBased on an analysis of antiretroviral purchases in Guatemala, we show the situation the country is in and point to advocacy actions to help improve the lives of people living with the virus.
SEE VIVIRCONVIH.ORGPODER, with the support of Connectas and the ICFJ, mapped all the ties that asset manager BlackRock has in Mexico: stock market holdings, energy projects, pension investment management and its relationships with political power.
SEE BLACKROCKThe construction of the New Mexico City International Airport has a planned investment of 250 billion pesos. This project by PODER and Wingu links all the contracts to the beneficial owners of the winning companies and makes them available.
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Analysis of the companies that benefited most from public procurement in the first three years of President Enrique Peña Nieto's term. A project by El Universal Data and PODER.
Ojo Público usó la información sobre la Bolsa de Valores de Lima que hay en QuiénEsQuién.Wiki para lanzar su sección "Sala del poder" que quiere "fiscalizar y conocer a los grupos económicos nos permite entender el Perú".
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Incide Social recorded the votes of the councilors of Mexico's Instituto Nacional Electoral to show whether there was any kind of collusion among them.