There is a fantastic opportunity available for all our Latin American readers who are between the ages of 18-30. El Cato ( the Cato Institute’ s Spanish program) is hosting their second annual Cato University in Guatemala.  Held in collaboration with the Universidad Fransisco Marroquin, the week long seminar will bring 60 young Latin American’s [...]

Please join Atlas for its monthly INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY meeting, which will be held on October 15th  from 10:00-11:30AM.
The program this month will include:

“A Campaign for Liberty” Eduardo Massieu- CEDICE (Venezuela).
“The Free Market Movement in Austria” Bernard Adamec- Europa Institut (Austria).
“International Property Rights Index” Victoria Strokova- Herrnando de Soto Fellow, Property Rights Alliance

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What do you do when government tries to limit your freedom of expression?
A group of young  free market Argentines are making sure their voices are heard. Protests, interviews, press conferences, viral campaigns and more are what “Argentina sin Mordaza”  (Argentina without a Gag) is doing to combat a proposed law which will increase control on [...]

Atlas’s annual  Atlas Experience in Niagara on the Lake, Canada is fast approaching. Join us for a weekend of intimate discussions on liberty, exciting excursions to Niagara Falls and the areas wineries and enjoy the company of other freedom lovers from around the world.
Special guests at this  year’s event include: Larry Reed (Foundation for Economic [...]

Please join Atlas at its office located on 1201 L Street, NW, Washington DC, 20005 for its monthly INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY. The meeting will be held on July 16th from 10:00-11:30AM.
Topics for this month’s meeting include:

Rule of Law and the Current Situation in Honduras- presented by Roger Noriega, American Enterprise Institute

Elections in Iraqi Kurdistan: A [...]

Investing in the youth is investing in the future of liberty. At Atlas, we love to see think tanks engaging with young inquisitive students. One easy way to appeal to this sector is through competition!
2008 Atlas Fisher Venture Grant winner, Fundacion Ecuador Libre (FEL) is hosting a nationwide essay contest. The topic is “El “Pensamiento [...]

This Thursday, June 25th, there will be a worldwide protest for the freedom of expression. The idea for this manifestation originated in Venezuela. A group of students wanted to protest Hugo Chavez’s attempts to shut down Globovision, a private Venezuelan news station. Word of the protest spread and students in over 30 different cities have [...]

As a part of Fundacion Global’s Atlas Shrugged program they’ve created an excellent video lauding the entrepreneurial spirit of Argentines in years past as well as the importance of the individual; ideals espoused in the book Atlas Shrugged. Below you can see the video in English, but it was originally produced in Spanish.

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Tragic news from our friends at Universidad Francisco Marroquin (UFM) in Guatemala: yesterday, four of the UFM team died in an airplane accident in Guatemala City.  Claudia Araneda  is remembered by many in our circles for managing the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Guatemala in 2006, as well as the APEE meeting there last [...]

Mexico has recently captured the public policy spotlight in Latin America as many worry about which direction this US neighboring country will take in the near future.  Nevertheless, as crime rates and tension rise in Mexico, there is a bright spot on the horizon.  Atlas announces, with great excitement, the launching of the Instituto Pensamiento [...]