Romulo Lopez Cordero

Not only bad news from Venezuela

Yesterday the Devil's Excrement a Blog on Venezuela posted a note on the current legalization process of land by the planning office of the Baruta district of Caracas. The interesting thing that it's mentioned is the fact that for the first time, people is really getting land titles, not just the land, but a legal document that they can use to mortgage the property and do all sort of commercial transactions. A revolution in the pure De Soto's style to resolve the mistery of Capital. CEDICE has been also working on the issues of the informal economy and recently Wladimir Zanoni its Chief analyst on the issue was mentioned on NPR

Territorial conflict between Chile and Bolivia

This morning the Washington Post Published and interesting report on the current sparks between Bolivia and Chile about their territorial conflict because of the land that Bolivia lost in the 1870 Pacific War with Peru and Chile.

Back Again

Since last week I have been posting on a irregular basis. Part of the problem has been other competing issues that I had to deal with. I hope that starting today I will resume a daily posting on this weblog.

Ocean City y silla Nueva

Mi nueva silla, miren este album y vean las historias de la silla y la visita a Ocean City.

Hayek passed away 12 years ago

Yesterday, March 23 was the 12th anniversary of Friederich A. Hayek passing away. Hayek was an influential figure on the Free Market movement that wrote Road to Serfdom in 1944. The book was reproduced in Readers Digest condensed book section (first and only time to appear at the front of the magazine and not at the back as usual), and featured as cartoons also. Recently there was a celebration for the 60th anniversary of Road to Serfdom . My Dad wrote yesterday some recolections about his meeting with Hayek at a Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Berlin. Dad was the first ecuadorian member of that organization in 1981.

Venezuela on NPR

National Public Radio (NPR), has been running this week a special on Latin American cities. Although I have disagreed with the comments on Guatemala because of the innacuracies yesterday, today's comments on Venezuela about informal economy were superb. It featured Wladimir Zanoni from CEDICE's projects on Informal economy. CEDICE the free-market think tank was recently recognized within Atlas's Templeton Freedom Awards Program

OSAMA

Seems like a good movie to see. Welcome Eneas to the blogging world.

Good News in El Salvador

Yesterday general elections in el Salvador between presidential candidates Tony Saca and Schafik Handal took place. The victory for Saca apparently was overwhelming given the high percentage participation of the voters, over 60% for a country used to see rates of barely over 50%.

Inmigrants settle in Suburbia

The Economist of March 13 has an interesting article about inmigrant trends about where they live when they come to the US. The article points out the fact that Hispanics more and more are settling into the suburbs. This is another reason why Huntington is wrong.

Blogging and good news from Ecuador

One of the reasons why I started this blog was to force myself to write after 3 year hiatus of not doing it. I have to admit that after a trial period of 1 month I am satisfied with it although the discipline of trying to write everyday is harsh.