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 [...]

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 [...]

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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Fundación Bases, based in Rosario Argentina recently launched a new interactive web site. Since 2004, this organization has been diligently promoting the ideas of a free society. Throughout the years, the foundation has organized various economic conferences and collaborated with universities to specifically reach the youth within the Argentine society.
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This week Atlas´s Regional Managers, Colleen Dyble (North America & Africa), Allegra Hewel (Latin America), Yiqiao Xu (Asia) and Cindy Cerquitella (Europe) share free market news from around the world.
The Atlas Podcast series appears each Friday with a new theme each week of the month:

Week 1: Network News with Regional Officers
Week 2: An Interview with [...]

 

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This past Tuesday, 15 thousand Argentine citizens took to the streets to protest the nationalization of their private pension funds. The demonstration was organized by “No Nos Roben” a group of activists that oppose President Kirchner’s attempt to take $30 billion from private funds. Young Intellectual Entrepreneur, Ezequiel Vazquez Ger, who interned at HACER this [...]

On Tuesday of this week, Kristina Kirchner, President of Argentina, announced that the government will be nationalizing $30 billion in private pension funds. As you can imagine, Atlas´s think tanks in Argentina have been writing and blogging about this economic catastrophe, which not only undermines the rule of law, but also puts Argentine property rights [...]

This month, listen in on Atlas’s monthly International Thursday event. Joining us this month:

Sara ait Lmoudden- American Islamic Congress- on the progress of freedom in Morocco
Maria del Carmen Acena- Former Minister of Education, Guatemala- on the education system and the challenges in Guatemala.

Mark Frazier- President of Open World Institute-on future free market breakthroughs.

Eduardo Helguera- Argentine [...]

 

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Fans of Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Kirzner, et al., take note: the Second International Conference on “The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century will be held in Rosario, Argentina, next month (August 7-9). The event is oganized by two Argentine think tanks, Fundacion Bases and Fundacion Hayek. Conference details are here.