Notes from the frontier

Fighting statism and cronyism in Central America.
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  • Massimo Mazzone

The bright future of Liberty Feb 16, 2016

“(…) the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people”. Thus Grover Cleveland wrote in 1887, vetoing a small, 10.000$ bill approved by Congress to help Texas farmers with seeds, after a drought of many years. Can you imagine an elected officer of any country today stating on the record that “the government should not support the people”? I see eggs, tomatoes and the occasional rock flying, perhaps even physically. But Cleveland was a Democratic (Republican and Democratic-Republican before) president, successor of giants like Jefferson, Madison and Van Buren....

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It is time to abandon the Nation-State Sep 29, 2015

At the end of March, I had the privilege to assist to the conferences of the Mont Pelerin Society and Fundación Internacional para la Libertad in Lima, Peru. I felt one issue in particular rose above all others in the discussions: the threat posed to the liberal State by the rise of theocracies (in the Middle East), the leftwing populism (in Latin America) and the authoritarian State with fascist tendencies (for example in Russia).   In my opinion, these phenomena are different only in appearance, while in reality they have the same cause: a deep dissatisfaction with the liberal State...

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