Alvaro Vargas Llosa is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute. His Independent books include Global Crossings, Liberty for Latin America, and The Che Guevara Myth.
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Posts by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
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Tuesday July 17, 2018 at 11:42 AM PDT
The World Cup offers an example of assimilation and cooperation.
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Tuesday June 19, 2018 at 12:00 PM PDT
The United States has serious debt problems that have not been addressed since the financial crisis shook the world a decade ago—they have actually been compounded.
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Friday May 18, 2018 at 9:57 AM PDT
Given that Venezuela monopolizes whatever interest there is in Latin America these days, we pay insufficient attention to another tyranny—that of Daniel Ortega.
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Monday April 16, 2018 at 3:12 PM PDT
Sometimes fiction offers better lessons in political economy than reality.
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Wednesday March 7, 2018 at 10:32 AM PDT
The Democrats could not have asked for a better ally than Donald Trump when it comes to trade protectionism.
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Monday February 12, 2018 at 1:27 PM PDT
The danger of seeing the stock market as a measure of political performance is that the government will be tempted to intervene.
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Wednesday December 20, 2017 at 2:39 PM PDT
If we want everything to remain the same, everything must change. These famous words from The Leopard, Lampedusa’s masterpiece of social upheaval in Sicily during the Italian unification, might as well have been inspired by Brexit, to judge by the first phase of the negotiations between London and the European Union, which have finally...
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Wednesday November 29, 2017 at 12:07 PM PDT
The mysteries of science have preserved Lenin alive, whose “death” in 1924 was a cunning scheme. I have managed to track him down to talk about the one hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Me: What does the “October Revolution” say to us today? Lenin: The vanquished were right. History has sent the Provisional...
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Tuesday October 24, 2017 at 9:15 AM PDT
The Catalan independence movement has drawn some support among libertarians. From a theoretical standpoint, any group’s attempt to break away from a larger political entity is hard to argue with. Ultimately, though, the principle of self-determination, taken to its logical extreme, would mean dissolving the state and replacing it with voluntary associations. Which is...
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Wednesday August 23, 2017 at 11:25 AM PDT
A bird’s-eye view of the Eurozone economies a decade after the financial crisis invites three conclusions: Governments that made unpopular free-market reforms are already reaping the fruits; families and businesses are acting more sensibly than their governments; last but not least, people have behaved much differently than the European Central Bank (ECB) intended. The...
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