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Belén Marty is the Libertarian Latina, a journalist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has lived in Guatemala, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States and is a former candidate for local office with Argentina's Libertarian Party. Follow @BelenMarty.

Argentina

End to Export Tariffs Breathes Life into Argentina’s Agriculture

Belén Marty Dec 18, 2015 94

EspañolArgentina used to be the world's granary. Up until World War I, Argentina's per capita income was higher than the United States'. Its grains and meat exports made up 7 percent of world trade, and its GDP represented half of Latin…
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Brazil

Brazilian Fury Brings Down WhatsApp Ban in Just 12 Hours

Belén Marty Dec 17, 2015 5

Brazil restored the world's most popular messaging app on Thursday morning, December 17, putting an end to a 12-hour ban resulting from a court order. Millions of Brazilians woke up on Thursday unable to use their favorite smartphone…
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Canada

Sex Workers Take a Stand Worldwide to Resist Violence, Prohibition

Belén Marty Dec 16, 2015 12

EspañolSex workers across the globe are uniting and refusing to be confined to the shadows of society. In particular, shared concerns regarding prohibition and threats to their safety have led them to coordinate the International Day to…
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Canada

Report: Canada’s Automatic Traffic Controls Bring Dollars, Not Safety

Belén Marty Dec 15, 2015 4

EspañolIs it speed, or is it greed? According to a new report form the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP), the reason road fatalities have dropped over the past 40 years in Canada is primarily due to advances in vehicle…
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Audio

Uber Grandma Won’t Back Down, Foresees a “Paradigm Shift”

Belén Marty Dec 14, 2015 12

EspañolSixty-three-year-old Stephanie is the "Uber grandma," New Hampshire's new star activist. After Portsmouth police fined her in October for violating an ordinance designed to ban Uber, the ride-sharing app, she refused a plea deal…
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Caribbean

Money and Mariachis: Bitcoin Conference Comes to Mexico

Belén Marty Dec 8, 2015 7

EspañolWhat do money, technology, and mariachis have in common? They were all present at the third Latin American Bitcoin Conference (laBitconf) in Mexico City on December 4-5. The most important bitcoin and blockchain event in Latin…
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Argentina

Venezuelan Exiles Eye Return after Years in the Wilderness

Belén Marty Dec 8, 2015 3

Español "You cannot imagine our joy," says Richard Alexander Molina about the Venezuelan opposition's landslide victory on December 6. Molina is a young Venezuelan who is about to enter his sixth year of exile in Buenos Aires,…
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Ideology

Pussy Riot to Headline the World’s Largest Libertarian Conference

Belén Marty Dec 8, 2015 71

Anti-authoritarian punk band Pussy Riot will headline the 9th International Students for Liberty Conference (ISFLC16), to be held in Washington, DC, on February 26-28, 2016, the organization announced on November 30. The event, which…
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Argentina

Argentina’s Economic Freedom Must Be Macri’s First Priority

Belén Marty Dec 8, 2015 8

Argentina ranks near the bottom of the Heritage Foundation's 2015 Economic Freedom Index, just above Cuba and Venezuela. That's why James Roberts, a Heritage research fellow for economic freedom and growth, flew to Buenos Aires to get a…
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Argentina

“In Cuba, We Haven’t Voted for a President in 60 Years”

Belén Marty Dec 7, 2015 6

EspañolMario Félix Lleonart Barroso is a Cuban dissident, activist, and blogger, not to mention a Baptist preacher. The Cuban pastor spent 20 days in Argentina as a guest of the Liberty Foundation, observing the presidential campaign and…
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Drug War

Mexican Journalist Tells of Industry with a Knife to Its Throat

Belén Marty Dec 4, 2015 14

EspañolBeing a journalist in Mexico has become a high-risk profession. Plumas Libres multimedia coordinator Miguel Ángel Díaz González, from Veracruz, experienced the dangers of the trade firsthand. He spoke with the PanAm Post about …
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Argentina

Maduro’s Sisters Hold Secret Meeting with Kirchner in Buenos Aires

Belén Marty Dec 1, 2015 27

María Adelaida and María Teresa Maduro Moros, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s sisters, traveled on Friday, November 27, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and left the country the next day. The reason for the trip is still unknown.…
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