The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile is recognized by the Templeton Freedom Awards for conducting and disseminating high quality research on entrepreneurship and improving curricula and teaching methods.

Instituto Millenium of Brazil is awarded the Young Institute award for its impressive early record of achievement, attracting more than 1000 students to two forums at universities, placing more than 100 articles in newspapers and magazines and over 30 videos online, publishing two books, and developing a weekly newsletter with more than 5000 subscribers.

Institute Invertir (Peru) is recognized in the Student Outreach category for its program bringing over 200 top-performing university students from all the regions of Peru to learn how to set up a business and run it efficiently.

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 [...]

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 [...]

On March 27th 2009 ProReforma, a nonpolitical and independent civic association, presented the proposal of a partial reform of Guatemala’s  Constitution (Proposal in Spanish) .
In August, in response to this initiative El Centro de Estudios Económico Sociales (CEES), an organization whose purpose is to study and spread the ideas of freedom,  presented an economic [...]

Please join us for a half-day conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Indianapolis on October 23, 2009, just before the start of The Philadelphia Society’s regional meeting.  Our co-sponsor, The Sagamore Institute for Policy Research , which is based in Indianapolis, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank engaged in “applied research,” that is, it puts [...]

In the first decades of the 20th century, Argentina was one of the leading countries in the world. Thanks to the vision of Juan Bautista Alberdi the country welcomed millions of immigrants - in 1930, foreigners represented 30% of the population. The newcomers began to work and create wealth and opportunities in a country with [...]

Here are some of the highlights across the Atlas Global Initiative websites this week:

“The Triangle of the Islamic Religious Polarization in the Gulf” is a can’t miss article on Minbaralhurriyya.org by Nabil Albukayre.
Chiraiazadi.org just posted a great article, “Real Democracy and Development”, by Peshwaz Faizulla.
OrdemLivre.org’s Diogo Costa just returned from a trip to Portugal, Mozambique, [...]

Peshwaz Faizulla, Editor of Chiraiazadi.org, will be on Aljazeera English,The Riz Khan show at 20:30 GMT ( 4:30pm EST) talking about the elections in Kurdistan.
“Syndrome of Poverty” an article by Muhamad Aldamye, talks about the international economic situation and the ever expanding growth between rich and poor on Minbaralhurriyya.org.
Two great articles are on OrdemLivre.org.  The [...]