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Local politicians are too often corrupt and criminal
When governments are indebted, high interest rates wreak havoc
The country should be faring much better
It is spending heavily to revive the country’s medical-industrial complex
Digital surveillance grids are meant to help solve local problems quickly. But they also track potential troublemakers
It is the country that imported by far the largest number of African slaves
