Latin America and freedom

I have already read an article “Hope Amid Turmoil in Latin America?” at the Atlas Foundation web-site, written by Alejandro A. Chafuen. It was in a PDF format, thus I cannot make an active link for that. My first impression from reading it was about the courage of free-market oriented people in Latin American anti-capitalist, anti-american countries, such as Venezuela, Argentina, and Bolivia.

He says that:

“During the 1970s, and almost until the crumbling of the Soviet Union, the enemies of freedom had a much more positive outlook for their cause. The ideas of liberty seemed doomed; national central planning, inevitable. Private property had to be strongly curtailed; Marxism was being blessed at the pulpit. Although left-wing movements had different flavors in different countries, they had a unifying philosophy that told them that they were the wave of the future”.

Then he adds the ideas that are fueling the attacks on liberty today are less optimistic, less appealing. So, freedom is becoming a winner gradually. The amount of Free-Market champions is growing, and at this time, Universities do not afraid to invite market-oriented intellectuals to have a speech for students. Instituto de Estudos Empresariais, free-market oriented young professional’s union, organizes the largest in the world conference on Free-Market, inviting people around the world for it. So, let me congratulate you guys, we are, even if slowly, but winning!