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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
We will start promptly at [...]
Keep Reading →Take a look at Atlas’s newest issue of our quarterly publication, Highlights.
This edition includes:
A Recap of Atlas’s 2009 Liberty Forum
Bringing Prescription Drugs to Market
Turtles and Capitalists
The Zimbabwe Papers
Raucous Caracas
Read Highlights here.
Keep Reading →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 [...]
Keep Reading →Not to harp too much more on the CEDICE event in Venezuela, but I just wanted to quickly share an image that pays homage to our President Alex Chafuen. As a man that usually stays behind the scenes and thrives on the success of others, it was nice to see him getting some well deserved [...]
Keep Reading →The New Republic has a good piece by Alvaro Vargas Llosa on the recent PR battle between Chavez and the friends of CEDICE during that think tank’s recent 25th anniversary celebrations in Caracas.
The Cedice event and the government’s response helped to convey a simple truth about Chavez–that the emperor has no clothes. Venezuelans had been [...]
For its 25th anniversary, CEDICE managed to host one of the largest gatherings of Latin American free market champions this year, all under the nose of the Chavez regime. As expected, the Venezuelan dictator did not take kindly to this gathering and threatened to shut it down, and even detained famous writer - Mario Vargas [...]
Keep Reading →Atlas’s Allegra Hewell, along with several other members of the Atlas staff, are currently in Caracas, Venezuela for CEDICE’s 25th Anniversary. Allegra will be posting images (maybe even video) and updates about what’s taking place at the conference to Atlas’s Tumblr site. You can view a program of the conference and festivities here.
Starting at 9am, [...]
This year, the well-established free market think tank, CEDICE (Venezuela) has won three international prizes from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation: The Templeton Freedom Award for Excellence in Promoting Liberty in the category of Student Outreach; the Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty; and the Francisco Marroquin Prize.
CEDICE will celebrate today, December 12, in Caracas [...]
CEDICE, one of Atlas’s only partners in the difficult territory of Venezuela, recently produced a paper on the impact of Hugo Chavez and his policies. Here is a brief excerpt:
“The myth that [Chavez] is a godsend to the poor must be debunked. He may seem interested in the poor, be a modern day Robin Hood, [...]
A week ago, Atlas conducted a successful event in Dallas, Texas. The event, entitled Risk in a Free Society was co-sponsored with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a long time ally of Atlas which was also created by our founder Antony Fisher. Although a variety of discussions emerged throughout the course of the [...]
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