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This archive contains published site articles attributed to Daniel Sardá. The separate Thinkers section contains historical intellectual profiles, not publication contributors.
Fundamentals
Classical liberalism and libertarianism belong to the same broad family defending liberty, but they differ over how much political power can be legitimate.
Fundamentals
What public debt is, how it is created, who finances it and why it can become future taxes, inflation or reduced economic freedom.
Fundamentals
Economic freedom allows people to work, start businesses, save, invest, contract and exchange under general rules, without depending on arbitrary permission from power.
Fundamentals
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.
Fundamentals
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
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
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, why money buys less, how it is measured through the CPI and why it affects wages, savings, prices and economic freedom.
Fundamentals
What taxes are, what they are used for, how they are classified and why their real impact goes beyond government revenue.
Fundamentals
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
How appeals to experts, institutions, media or technical consensus can be used legitimately or turned into political manipulation.
Fundamentals
A clear definition of classical liberalism: individual rights, private property, limited government, rule of law and economic freedom.
Current Affairs
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
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 turns political disagreements into judgments about the goodness or wickedness of people, closing space for evidence, nuance and pluralism.
Analysis
Extreme simplification turns complex problems into easy-to-repeat narratives: one cause, one culprit and one solution.
Analysis
Early recognition, oil, OPEC, 2002, sanctions and diplomatic rupture: a bilateral history marked by energy, power and crises of trust.
Analysis
How scapegoating works in politics: collective blame, causal simplification, propaganda and preparation of the ground for exclusion or repression.
Current Affairs
Agenda, meetings, reactions and controversies surrounding María Corina Machado’s tour of Spain in April 2026, based on official sources and verifiable reporting.
Analysis
What Realpolitik means, where the concept came from and why it should not be reduced to cynicism or dirty politics.
Fundamentals
Why natural law was decisive for liberalism: rights prior to the state, limited government, property, consent and resistance to unjust law.
Fundamentals
From commodity money to the modern monetary system: how value, trust, trade and the role of the state changed in the history of money.
Fundamentals
Why gold and silver dominated monetary history, which other metals were used as money and what role gold still retains today as an international reserve asset.
Fundamentals
From absolutism to constitutionalism, from free trade to twentieth-century renewal: the history of classical liberalism as a tradition of limits on power.