Fundamentals
Individual Rights vs Collective Rights: Differences, Risks and Limits
Individual rights protect concrete persons; collective rights invoke groups, communities, peoples or identities and require clear limits.
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Chronological archive of Libertatis Venezuela publications. Here you can review every published article without filtering by category.
Fundamentals
Individual Liberty: What It Is and Why It Is Central to Classical Liberalism
Individual liberty protects each person’s life, conscience, speech, property, association and life projects against arbitrary power.
Fundamentals
What Equality Before the Law Is and Why It Is Essential for a Free Society
Equality before the law requires general rules applicable to everyone: no one above the law, no one beneath its protection and no political privilege.
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What the Free Market Is and Why It Does Not Mean Absence of Rules
The free market is not chaos or corporate privilege: it is voluntary exchange under private property, contracts, competition, responsibility and general rules.
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What Economic Competition Is and Why It Protects Consumers
Economic competition protects consumers because it forces companies to earn their preference through better prices, quality, variety, innovation and service.
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Negative Liberty vs Positive Liberty: What the Difference Is and Why It Matters
Negative liberty protects against arbitrary interference; positive liberty asks whether a person has real capacity to pursue their ends.
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What Limited Government Is and Why It Matters for Freedom
Limited government is not absence of government: it is political power subject to rules, competences, rights, institutional checks and constitutional limits.
Fundamentals
Classical Liberalism vs Neoliberalism: Conceptual, Historical and Political Differences
Classical liberalism and neoliberalism are not the same: one is a tradition of limits on power; the other is a later, disputed and often political term.
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Classical Liberalism vs Libertarianism: Differences, Points of Contact and Limits on Power
Classical liberalism and libertarianism belong to the same broad family defending liberty, but they differ over how much political power can be legitimate.
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What Public Debt Is and How It Affects Economic Freedom
What public debt is, how it is created, who finances it and why it can become future taxes, inflation or reduced economic freedom.
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What Economic Freedom Is and Why It Matters for Prosperity
Economic freedom allows people to work, start businesses, save, invest, contract and exchange under general rules, without depending on arbitrary permission from power.
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What the Rule of Law Is and Why It Protects Individual Liberty
The rule of law is not the mere existence of laws: it is a system of limits on political power that protects the individual from arbitrariness.
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What Private Property Is and Why It Is Key to Freedom
Private property is not merely having things: it is the right to use, enjoy, dispose of and protect one’s own assets under general rules and due process.
Analysis
Private Jets in Venezuela: What Is Known, What Is Not Known and Why It Matters
Venezuela shows a striking concentration of business jets per inhabitant among South American countries listed by ACJ/JETNET, but public evidence does not support a closed South American ranking.
Practical
How to Learn a Digital Skill on Your Own
A practical guide for Venezuelans and Spanish-speaking readers who want to learn a digital skill independently, build autonomy, create value and open digital work opportunities without depending on a traditional path.
Fundamentals
What Inflation Is and Why It Destroys Purchasing Power
What inflation is, why money buys less, how it is measured through the CPI and why it affects wages, savings, prices and economic freedom.
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What Taxes Are and How They Affect Economic Freedom
What taxes are, what they are used for, how they are classified and why their real impact goes beyond government revenue.
Fundamentals
What Are Central Banks? Functions, Monetary Power and Liberal Critiques
What central banks are, how they work, why they influence inflation, credit and public debt, and the main critiques from a liberal-libertarian perspective.
Analysis
Appeal to external authority: what it is and how it is used to manipulate politics
How appeals to experts, institutions, media or technical consensus can be used legitimately or turned into political manipulation.
Fundamentals
What is classical liberalism?
A clear definition of classical liberalism: individual rights, private property, limited government, rule of law and economic freedom.
Current Affairs
Updated report: recent movements within Chavismo, internal tensions and the hard-line anti-imperialist line — April 2026
Updated report on the campaign against sanctions, Mario Silva’s hard-line criticism, the context of Valentín Santana and La Piedrita, and signs of public friction inside Chavismo.
Analysis
What propaganda is and how it works: definition, techniques and examples
Propaganda is not simply lying: it is communication designed to influence perceptions, emotions and behavior through selection, repetition, symbols and interested frames.
Analysis
Moralization of debate and political manipulation
Moralization of debate turns political disagreements into judgments about the goodness or wickedness of people, closing space for evidence, nuance and pluralism.
Analysis
What extreme simplification is in politics and how it is used to manipulate
Extreme simplification turns complex problems into easy-to-repeat narratives: one cause, one culprit and one solution.