Red Libertad is the largest network of independent think-tanks in Argentina, whose mission is to promote public policies based on the values of Freedom, Private Property, Rule of Law, World Integration and Free Market Economy.

It was born as an initiative of Fundación Libertad, in Rosario city (www.libertad.org.ar) and it is associated to FIL -Fundación Internacional para la Libertad-(www.fundacionfil.org) , which gathers together think tanks from all the world and is chaired by the well-known writer Mario Vargas Llosa.

OBJECTIVES

- To influence decision makers and reach public opinion through seminars,research, publications and its own tv and radio programas.  
- To de-centralize the message of Freedom in order to reach the many and various regions of Argentina.
- To encourage new intellectual entrepreneurs and support new free-market organizations in all 24 provinces of the country.

1- PROGRAMS

In order to have a "results measurement" in the public local and provincial administration that has been absent so far and could function as incentive for the pending changes, Red Libertad will produce a series of economic indexes through agreements with prestigious international institutions:

Provincial Perfomance INdex
The first experiencie in Latin America,comparing economic freedom in the provincial(state) level, based in the methodology of Fraser Institute (Canada)

Indexes:  regulations, public expenditure, fiscal development, indebtment, labor market
Click here to see 2005 Edition and Press

ARGENTINA RESOURCE BANK
Starting October 26-27 2006, in Buenos Aires,Red Libertad organizes the "Argentia Resource Bank" with the support of Diario LA NACION(traditional major newspaper) , adopting the succesfull model of Heritage Foundation. More than 60 argentinian think-tanks and public policy independent institutes present their work and exchange ideas. Invited speakers and participants from the US, Spain and Chile will be part of the meeting. The event is also called " Civil Society Solutions to Public Problems" " and
it's the most important annual seminar of Red Libertad.

Educational Freedom Index
With the support of Mannhattan Institute (USA) and ESEADE(Argentina)
Indexes:  educational budget, number of teachers, students and institutions, evaluations, parents' freedom of choice

Survey on the Business Environment in the Provinces Annual survey to local businessmen on the business environment in the provinces Index of Crime Perception With the support of Paz Ciudadana (Chile), Fundar(www.fundar.org.ar)
Indexes:  crime perception, quality of the police, economic impact of insecurity, etc. 
Index of Institutional Strength and Economic Development in Latin America

First Index that will show the close relation between rule of law and property rights protection, and economic prosperity, measuring all Latin American countries., corruption, press freedom, independence of the powers, abuse of authority, etc. 

Seminars on Economic Freedom
Co-organized with Heritage Foundation, with the aim to promote the relationship between Economic Freedom and Growth. 

Leadership School
Seminars for the training of new leaders and support to leaders of the civil society on each region, with two central objectives: to improve the background of the political and economic ruling class of the country and to pursue to contribute with some intelligence and talent to some public topics. 

Legislative Action Program
Following the model of the think tanks in US and Chile that contribute in the  arrangement of  the legislative agenda of each period, Red Libertad will reach national and provincial legislators from their own region of origin, with information, proposals and consultancy on four basic issues every year. 

 

MEMBERS

At present, Red Libertad is constituted by:  

Fundación Libertad Rosario
Fundación Global  Mar del Plata
Fundación Alberdi Mendoza
Fundación Mercado Bahía Blanca
Fundación del Tucumán Tucumán
Fundacion Salta, Salta
Fundacion Alas, Santiago del Estero
Fundación Iniciativa Córdoba
Fundación HAYAS Ushuaia
Fundacion Libertad, La Pampa
Fundacion Progreso y Libertad, Neuquen

Atlas: Fundación Atlas para una Sociedad Libre participates in Red Libertad as an associate institutey in Capital Federal.

FUNDACION LIBERTAD (ROSARIO)
www.libertad.org.ar
Fundación Libertad was created in Rosario in 1988 and it develops its
activities with the support of more than 200 private businesses.  Those
activities include: CeyCe (Centro de Estudios y Capacitación Empresaria -
Business school), CEFI (Centro de Estudios para el Fortalecimiento
Institucional  -  Center of sudies for the institutional strengthening) CE y
DE (Centro de Emprendedores y Desarrollo de Empresas - Center of
entrepreneurs and business development), Instituto de Estudios Económicos
(Institute of Economic Research) as well as a large amount of courses,
conferences, seminars, research and a strong presence in the media.  Highly
prestigious people like Mario Vargas Llosa and the following Nobel Prizes
have lectured in Fundación Libertad:   Gary Becker, Douglass North, John
Harsanyi, Robert Lucas, James Buchanan, James Mirless, the historian Paul
Johnson, Lech Walessa (Peace Nobel Prize) and Jean Francoise Revel, among
others. 

FUNDACION GLOBAL (MAR DEL PLATA)
www.fglobal.org
Fundación Global was created in 1996 and it gathers 95 prominent businesses
from Mar del Plata and the region.  Its activities include dozens of
seminars, studies and research as well as its own programs on the radio (LA
RED) and columns on TV (Channel 8, Telefé Group).  It also has a Centro de
Estudios Económicos (CEE - Economic Studies Center) and an Instituto de
Estudios para la Competitividad Turística (ICT - Institute of studies for
the Tourism Competitiveness) 

FUNDACION ALBERDI (MENDOZA)
www.ucongreso.edu.ar
Created in 1993, it is devoted to promote the ideals of freedom of the great
Argentinean forefather and to develop seminars, publish books and perform
the successful radio program "Rumbo Económico".   It keeps a close
relationship with Universidad de Congreso, one of the most prestigious
private educational institutions of the country.  
FUNDACION MERCADO (BAHIA BLANCA)
With its headquarters in Bahía Blanca city, it has specialized in topics of
economic research and the production of quality and quantity indexes since
1996.  It produces and promotes the Index of Consumers Confidence at a
national level as well as the index of Confidence of the savers and of the
Argentinean Family.  

FUNDACION DEL TUCUMÁN (TUCUMÁN)
www.fundaciondeltucuman.org.ar
Fundación del Tucumán was created in 1985 and it is sponsored by more than 100 companies.  Its mission is to contribute to the development of Argentina specializing in the Northeast region (NOA) Its scope of action is organized in five areas of work:  research, an Ideas Generator Center, Training of Human Resources, Business Development Activities and Social Sector Articulation.  

FUNDACION INICIATIVA (CORDOBA)
Founded in June 2001, with legal status and its headquarters in the city of
Córdoba Argentina, it was created by businessmen and professionals out of
the initiative of 34 companies from Córdoba.  Its main objective is to
strengthen the institutions of the public sector in order to fulfill their
duties written in the Constitution and the Law and to stimulate a greater
participation of the civil society in the public sector.  
 
FUNDACION HAYAS (USHUAIA)
Fundación HAYAS was created as an environment for the defense of the values
of freedom.  It promotes tolerance, equality of opportunity, an open society
and the state of law in its widest scope.  It is situated in the southern
most area of the country, analyzing public action and policies based on
individual freedom and the market, general welfare, roots and peace.

FUNDACION SALTA(SALTA)
Borned in february 1997, Works mainly in socio-cultural and business
leadership fields. It has an Art and Culture Center and a well-known Center
of Economic Research, that Publisher the only available data and economic
research of Salta Province.

FUNDACION PROGRESO Y LIBERTAD (NEUQUEN)
" Progress and Freedom" Institute from Neuquén province gathers young
profesionals  from Neuquén and Rio Negro region. Its Director, Daniel
Darrieux, is a prestigious economic journalist. It has its own TV
program(Channel 8) and Radio Program(www.empresaspatagonia.com.ar)

FUNDACION ALAS( SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO)

Founded by the end of 2005, in northern Santiago del Espero province, this
organization promotes free society and institucional strength. Economic
Research both at provincial and nacional leves are its main areas of work.

TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
During 2007, RED LIBERTAD will be extended to other regions:
Corrientes
San Juan
Bariloche
Jujuy
Río Gallegos
Posadas

and therefore reaching almost 16 institutes  with presence all over the
country.


AUTHORITIES


Board: Gerardo Bongiovanni, Fernando Bach,Daniel Pereyra,  Susana Nutti;
Claudia Paladino; Laura Rodriguez Machado; Federico Saravia Toledo; Darío
Urruty,Castor Lopez, Marcelo Otiñano, Daniel Darrieux
General Director:  Dr. Fernando Alvarez

ADVISORY BOARD

» Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
» Alejandro Chafuen (USA)

» Robert Barro (USA)
» Guillermo Calvo (Argentina)

» Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós (Spain)
» Ramón Diaz (Uruguay)

» James Buchanan (USA)
» Mark Falcoff (USA)

» Hernán Büchi (Chile)
» Enrique Ghersi (Peru)

» Steve Hanke (USA)
» Arthur Laffer (USA)

» Cristián Larroulet (Chile)
» Carlos Alberto Montaner (Cuba)

» Jean Francois Revel (France)
» Ruth Richardson (New Zealand)


RELATED INSTITUTES

From Argentina:

» ACDE
» CEMA
» Conciencia
» ESEADE
» FORES
» Fundación Carlos Pellegrini
» Fundación Compromiso
» Fundación Friedrich Naumann
» Fundación Gobierno y Sociedad
» Fundación Hayek
» Fundación de Investigaciones Económicas Latinoamericanas (FIEL)
» Fundación República
» Fundación Unidos del Sud
» Grupo Sophia
» IAEF
» IDEA
» IDEC
» Universidad de San Andrés
» Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
From Abroad:

» Atlas Economic Research Foundation
» Cato Institute (USA)
» CEDICE (Venezuela)
» Centro de Estudios Públicos (Chile)
» CERES (Uruguay)
» CIEN (Guatemala)
» CITEL (Peru)
» De Capital Importancia (México)
» FAES (España)
» Fomento del Trabajo Nacional (España)
» Foro Latinoamericano (USA)
» Fraser Institute (Canada)
» Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (Germany)
» FULIDED (Bolivia)
» Fundación DL (Colombia)
» Fundación Francisco Marroquín (USA)
» Fundación Iberoamérica Europa (Spain)
» Fundación ICO (Spain)
» HACER (USA)
» Heritage Foundation (USA)
» Institute of Economic Affairs (UK)
» Instituto Atlántico (Brazil)
» Instituto de Ciencias Políticas (Colombia)
» Instituto de Estudios Económicos (Spain)
» IEEP (Ecuador)
» Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo (Chile)
» Manhattan Institute (USA)
» Timbro Institute (Sweden)

Fundación Internacional para la Libertad (www.fundacionfil.org) has as its
main objectives the defense and promotion of the principles of liberty,
democracy and the state of law.  Chaired by Mario Vargas Llosa, its
constitution has been an initiative of several institutions and
personalities from both sides of the Atlantic (USA, Spain, Portugal and
Latin America and Europe) in a time of serious uncertainty on the political,
social and economic evolution of the continent.   FIL is a response to the
neopopulist surge whose success would mean a great setback in the process of
modernization and whose spreading is the result of the lack of roots of the
ideals of a liberal democracy in this region.

www.redlibertad.org.ar