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the structures and conditions required to guarantee the right to access to information of our citizens.” Cuban leader Fidel Castro was not invited. This description of the state of transparency in Africa and Latin America is courtesy of Laura Neuman and Richard Calland. 16. The Venezuelan government has tried to link hemispheric access to information provisions to more controversial freedom of press issues, most recently at the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly. Be- yond these efforts, Venezuela has been silent on passage of a national law. 17. Alison Tilley and Victoria Mayer, “Access to Information Law and the Challenge of Effective Implementation: The South African Case,” in Richard Calland and A. Tilley, eds., The Right to Know, the Right to Live: Ac- cess to Information and Socio-Economic Justice (Cape Town: Open Democracy Advice Center, 2002), 72–85; Freedominfo.org, Public Servants Don’t Know the Law, Aren’t Implementing Transparency (2002), http://www.freedominfo. org/reports/safrica2.htm. 16 introduction: the battle over transparency

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