1.  For years, Carey relied heavily on Padellaro to clean up locals that had been placed into trusteeship because of corrupt leadership.

2.  He became a champion of democracy, a critic of Yasser Arafat and what he calls a corrupt Palestinian leadership, and even a friend of some Israelis.

3.  Instead, years of corrupt Marxist leadership and a bloody democratic transition marked by urban ethnic warfare have left Congolese bitter and impoverished.

4.  Decades of civil wars and corrupt leadership have left the region poor and undeveloped, with foreign governments and investors looking elsewhere to spend their money.

5.  Venezuelans voted Sunday for members of a powerful constitutional assembly that President Hugo Chavez promises will rescue the country from decades of corrupt leadership and widening poverty.