Friday, September 18, 2015

Carlos Rangel: Venezuela’s Forgotten Liberal Prophet

“No man is a prophet in his own land.”Carlos Rangel prophetically warned Latin This Spanish aphorism is a very fitting summary of the life of the great Venezuelan classical-liberal intellectual Carlos Rangel. A rather obscure figure in the realm of liberalism, Rangel had very powerful insights regarding Latin American politics and the reasons for the region’s underdevelopment. Carlos Enrique Rangel Guevara was born in Caracas on September 17, 1929. Rangel completed his entire primary and secondary education in Venezuela, but pursued higher education abroad in the United States and France. More…

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