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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tenXents" data-source="post: 25316463" data-attributes="member: 567998">There are well regarded studies available. Even if we disregard those studies because they could also be political, one could always use common sense and conventional wisdom.So, you'd rather believe a country which goes as far as to only allow foreign visitors to photograph and document what they consider acceptable? Like I said, a country that has absolutely no transparency cannot be trusted.Not true. Current and past governments in Venezuela can be considered dictatorships to a certain extent.Because there are well documented cases of media censorship and outright lying by the government which is desperate to remain in power.Of course that's true. But we are not talking about black ops, are we? The USA and even Sri Lanka have way better track record as far as transparency is considered. Countries could have military secrets, but here we are talking about keeping things under wraps just so the government can hang on to power.Whether those "facts" are acceptable or not depends entirely on the credibility of the government or the organization which released those "facts".</blockquote>

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