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Venezuelan Student Movement Leader Awarded $500,000 Milton Friedman Liberty Prize
Cato Institute ^ | 4/25/08 | Leigh Harrington

Posted on 04/25/2008 8:18:28 AM PDT by cowtowney

Washington, D.C. –The Cato Institute has announced that Yon Goicoechea, leader of the pro-democracy student movement in Venezuela that successfully prevented President Hugo Chávez’s regime from seizing broad dictatorial powers in December 2007, has been awarded the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.

* Milton Friedman Prize * Registration for the Milton Friedman Prize2008 Biennial Dinner Registration * Yon GoicoecheaYon Goicoechea Recipient of the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty * Youtube video: Student demonstration in San CristobalAbout the Student Movement * Youtube video: Student demonstration in San CristobalQuotes from Yon Goicoechea * Youtube video: Student demonstration in CaracasYouTube Video: Student demonstration in Caracas on its way to the Supreme Tribunal * Youtube video: Student demonstration in San CristobalYouTube Video: Student demonstration in San Cristobal * About Milton Friedman * Past Winners

A 23-year-old law student, Mr. Goicoechea plays a pivotal role in organizing and voicing opposition to the erosion of human and civil rights in his country. In his commitment to a modern Venezuela, Goicoechea emphasizes tolerance and the human right to seek prosperity.

Venezuela’s student movement emerged in May of 2007 in response to a government-ordered shutdown of the nation’s oldest private television station, RCTV. In the face of ongoing death threats and continual intimidation due to his prominent and vocal leadership, Mr. Goicoechea has been indispensible in organizing massive, peaceful student protest marches that have captured the world’s attention.

By December of 2007, the student movement was credited with defeating a proposed constitutional reform that would have concentrated unprecedented political and economic power in the hands of the government.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chavez; democracy; goicoechea; hugochavez; hugoisapunk; miltonfriedman; venezuela
Hero. Milton Friedman's legacy lives on.
1 posted on 04/25/2008 8:18:30 AM PDT by cowtowney
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To: cowtowney

Excellent. The guy is a wizard.


2 posted on 04/25/2008 8:19:39 AM PDT by cll (Carthage must be destroyed)
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To: cowtowney

Cajones de brasso, amigo.


3 posted on 04/25/2008 8:22:51 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: cowtowney
>Venezuelan Student Movement Leader Awarded $500,000 Milton Friedman Liberty Prize

Don't know about this . . .
We'd all be kind of pissed off
if some foreign group

gave some hippie kid
in the US half-a-mil!
If Hugo decides

to pick some fights here
he can say we started it,
sending funding there.

4 posted on 04/25/2008 8:24:26 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss

First of all you assume being right v wrong is relative, which it is not.

Second of all, I don’t care what Chavez thinks. Try not to be such a coward.


5 posted on 04/25/2008 8:28:06 AM PDT by cowtowney
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To: cowtowney

Established in 2002 and presented every two years, the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty is the leading international award for significant contributions to advancing individual liberty. The Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman passed away in November of 2006.


6 posted on 04/25/2008 8:28:28 AM PDT by cowtowney
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To: cowtowney
>Try not to be such a coward

I'll get back to you
right after I finish this
satisfying yawn . . .

7 posted on 04/25/2008 8:32:45 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: cowtowney

Sean Penn, call on line 1..........


8 posted on 04/25/2008 8:34:43 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: cowtowney; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...


Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
9 posted on 04/25/2008 8:35:37 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: theFIRMbss
If Hugo decides to pick some fights here he can say we started it, sending funding there.

As if he had the wherewithall to even try...
10 posted on 04/25/2008 8:48:38 AM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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To: theFIRMbss
Don't know about this . . .
We'd all be kind of pissed off
if some foreign group
gave some hippie kid
in the US half-a-mil!

Oh, you'd get over it! Trust me.

11 posted on 04/25/2008 9:09:51 AM PDT by billorites (Freepo ergo sum)
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To: cowtowney

Well said.


12 posted on 04/25/2008 9:11:53 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (<===Non-bitter, Gun-totin', Typical White American)
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To: cowtowney

Looks like this award is the antithesis of the Nobel Peace Prize. This youngster is wise beyond his years and a hero worthy of this recognition.


13 posted on 04/25/2008 9:26:43 AM PDT by CSM (Kakistocracy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.)
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To: theFIRMbss

Are you joking? Chavez has been picking fights HERE and all over this hemisphere for YEARS.

WAKE UP!

jas3


14 posted on 04/25/2008 9:27:09 AM PDT by jas3
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To: billorites; theFIRMbss
Oh, you'd get over it! Trust me.

Good point. Chavez has been feeding money to the Kennedys for years.

Absolute silence in the press.

15 posted on 04/25/2008 9:35:34 AM PDT by marron
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To: cowtowney

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16 posted on 04/25/2008 2:40:45 PM PDT by cowtowney
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