FORMER SPANISH PRIME MINSTER SAYS LIBERTY BRINGS PROSPERITY
On Monday 12 January 2009 Aznar addressed students and the press corps about the need for fortifying the rule of law and individual freedom in Latin America. Iboamerican liberty where the rule of law is respected is the only system that has proved time and again to maximize the number of people who prosper and to reduce poverty he stated.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Washington D.C. Fifty-two students from across Latin America were welcomed by former Prime Minister of Spain Jose Maria Aznar to the first session of the Institute for Leadership in the Americas.
On Monday 12 January 2009 Aznar addressed students and the press corps about the need for fortifying the rule of law and individual freedom in Latin America. Iboamerican liberty where the rule of law is respected is the only system that has proved time and again to maximize the number of people who prosper and to reduce poverty he stated.
Aznar became a Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. in April 2004. In 2008 he was given the annual Vaek and Anna Maria Polk Charitable Foundation Award.
Having Mr. Aznar open this program underscores the importance of teaching principles of freedom of liberty under the rule of law and for maintaining those institutions that spread prosperity in Latin America said ILA Director Jon Perdue. This region shares a common language ancestry and history. Having President Aznar speak about the same themes that we try to impart to our ILA students in class is a great help to our program. It made a big impact on the students.
ILA is sponsored by the Washington-based nonprofit The Fund for American Studies and was held in conjunction with Catholic University in Santiago Chile. Over the next two weeks ILA students will study foundations for Chiles economic miracle and learn about the political and economic necessities of a free society.
Our aim is to provide the next generation of leaders with an understanding of the fundamentals of a free society so they can apply the concepts to their efforts in their home countries said Perdue.
The students hail from Argentina Guatemala Colombia Chile Mexico Brazil Peru Bolivia Venezuela Uruguay Honduras Panama Puerto Rico the Dominican Republic and the U.S.
Lecturers for the ILA program include Dr. Rolf J. Luders professor of economics at Catholic University Dr. Patrick J. Deneen associate professor of government at Georgetown University Dr. Alejandra Salinas director of the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at ESEADE Graduate School Buenos Aires and Dr. Jose Pinera the architect of Chiles private pension system. To learn more about ILA visit http://www.TFAS.org/ILA.
About The Fund for American Studies The Fund for American Studies is a Washington D.C. educational nonprofit with internship and academic programs for college students administered in partnership with Georgetown University. TFAS holds programs in Latin America the Czech Republic Greece Hong Kong and Washington D.C. Please visit http://www.TFAS.org to learn more.
Contact: Patrice Lee The Fund for American Studies 202-986-0384 plee@tfas.org www.TFAS.org
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