One of the joys of the internet blogging is that it allows you to peer through a glass dimly into the lives of others from countries not your own. I was led to Swimming Against the Red Tide, a Brazilian LIBERTARIAN CONSERVATIVE blogger no less! Who would have thought? I, in my ignorance, had written off Brazilians as doomed to their socialist co-dependency forever even though Brazil is home to the some of the finest emerald mines in the world. (Do I know what’s important or what? Freedom, liberty and fine emeralds.)
In Luis Afonso Assumpcao’s latest posts, he brings attention to an upcoming national referendum on disarming the law abiding citizenry, points to another Libertarian blogger originally from Chile but now living in Brazil ( who actually references Hayek!) and alludes to two interesting books that have just been published. One traces the money trail from the KGB to national socialist movements in Central and South America and the other asserts that it was Cuba who arranged for the assassination of Chile’s Salvador Allendes, and not Pinochet and/or Richard Nixon. Now if I could just find conservative/libertarian leaning bloggers who write in English from Argentina my optimism would know no bounds. Go show your support.
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