What if they discovered that their government is actually dependent on Taiwan to balance its budget; on Cuba for doctors and nurses to provide health care in remote areas; on the US for donations of boats to patrol its own territorial waters; on annual free scholarships from Cuba, Taiwan, Mexico to train professionals; on Venezuela to house the poor; on donations of musical instruments from roving ambassadors to provide music in schools; on Mexico to build its theatre for the performing arts.

The suffocating ignorance is partially attributable – in the phraseology of Jules Vasquez – to an “absence of gatekeepers”. There are no threshold standards to qualify people to hold high public office or to access media instruments that influence public opinion, resulting in the ignorati unbound.