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We all want a salary increase, but can the Island afford to give raises without a proportional increase in productivity, without demanding competence and work of excellence? Puerto Rico is a bankrupt territory that lives on federal funds to remedy natural disasters, provide health services, address social problems, provide security, finance public education, build and maintain water, electricity and road infrastructure, among others.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu’s new budget proposal includes a call for occupational licensing reform. In his February 14 budget message, Sununu expressed a commitment to “breaking down regulatory barriers, lowering the cost of entry to do business here, increasing free‐market competition, and signaling to the rest of America that New Hampshire is the #1 state in America for Economic Freedom.”

“You can’t bribe a computer,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said. Puerto Rico, during this time of rebuilding, should heed these words. Estonia—a member of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—is No. 1 in providing government services digitally, according to the United Nations; first in democratic development among 29 post-communist countries, according to Freedom House; first in international tax competitiveness, according to the Tax Foundation (the U.S. is 22nd); and sixth in the 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, according to the Heritage Foundation (the U.S. is 25th). It has the most startups per capita in Europe, and its 15-year-olds top the Continent in reading, science and mathematics.

The head of the Forbes publishing group denounces the loss of economic freedom on both sides of the Atlantic in an interview for LM.

Margaret Thatcher was despised by socialists because she stood up to them, questioned their false compassion and dared to expose statism as the mindless, dehumanizing cult that it is. She rhetorically ripped the velvet glove off the iron fist and spoke of the State with benefits, socialist, as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Those are things that lovers of the state can't stand.

Some people on our island are convinced that without the intervention of the "defending" state, businesses in Puerto Rico would still operate like the absentee employer of the sugar cane era. We have taken the labor regulatory framework to such a level that Puerto Rico has the most onerous labor provisions of any jurisdiction in the United States, taking away competitiveness and flexibility from the private sector.

Daniel Raisbeck, analyst on Latin America at the Cato Institute, told Infobae from Washington that the president-elect should not be compared to Trump or Bolsonaro and affirmed that dollarization will bring prosperity to the common citizen.

The president-elect's proposals form a 'totum revolutum' that should be unraveled in order to understand the to understand the phenomenon he represents.

One of the global referents of anarcho-capitalism congratulated Javier Milei and compared the importance of his victory with the fall of the Berlin Wall that led to the collapse of communism.

On November 19, Argentina faced one of the most important elections since the return of democracy in 1983 exactly 40 years ago. The pro-life libertarian underdog candidate Javier Milei and his party “La Libertad Avanza” won the presidential run-off with a landslide victory, a 12% margin over the leftist Peronist former Minister of Economy Sergio Massa: 56% versus 44%. The two candidates campaigned for each vote in one of the most polarized and ideologized campaigns ever.