Just before the traditional military parade of the 29th of July began, an apparently secondary event took place: approximately one hundred men, women, senior citizens and children clashed with the police and military to force their way into the stands set up at the edge of Brazil Avenue to watch the parade.

Listen to Hernando de Soto discuss some of the reasons behind the continuing financial crisis, the recession and toxic paper with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick.

The Property Rights Alliance, inspired in Hernando de Soto’s work, has just published the 2010 International Property Rights Index (IPRI), measuring property rights in 125 countries. This is its fourth edition and this year it was carried out by Victoria Strokova, the 2009 Hernando de Soto Fellow.

Hernando de Soto, President of the ILD, was interviewed by Bloomberg on February 15th, in Ulaanbaatar, where he attended the Mongolian Economic Forum, and met with President Elbegdorj and Prime Minister Batbold. In this article, the aforementioned intellectual leaders express their views on Mongolia potentially suffering from the ´Dutch Disease’, after the recent boom in the Mongolian Mineral Industry.

During mid-February 2010, ILD President, Hernando de Soto visited India to participate in a day-long session on inclusiveness, hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Alongside, he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, senior government officials and politicians such as Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi. The government will be consulting him to fine-tune its strategy to make the economy more inclusive. The economist spoke to Wall Street Journal’s Mint on a range of issues, including his conversations with officials and impressions of Gandhi.

On October 8th, PBS stations across the United States began airing “The Power of the Poor with Hernando de Soto,” a one-hour documentary film produced by Free to Choose Media, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and presented by WTTW National Productions in Chicago.

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the global branch of the US Chamber of Commerce, has created the “Hernando de Soto for Democracy” Award, which will be presented annually to a CIPE partner who has followed De Soto’s path franchising entrepreneurs in the informal sectors of developing countries.

ILD President Hernando de Soto received one of the highest academic distinctions in Europe.  He was named Honorary Member of the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin, the world's oldest intellectual debate forum. Other members of this society include Friedrich Engels, Karl Popper, Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Becket, Bram Stoker, Desmond Tutu, and John McCain.

On Friday, October 30th, Hernando de Soto, Beloit College’s 2009 Upton Scholar, addressed a capacity crowd at the college’s Center for the Sciences. ILD President, De Soto said the economic successes of the United States have been built upon a foundation of systems, standards, communications and the rule of law. He argued, however, that the United States effectively lost the way in the ongoing economic crisis which has been fueled largely through trading in the unsecured and undocumented derivatives markets.

Hernando de Soto spoke on the importance of the formalization of property, especially for the poor, at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference held in San Diego between 13 and 17 July. The conference, which was attended by GIS professionals and experts in various related fields, focused on sharing their experience in the use of geographic information systems.

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Renowned journalist Andrea Mitchell, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and ILD President Hernando de Soto discuss some of the underlying concepts of legally empowering the poor, national and international security, and the financial crisis at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2009.

Renowned Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto and Editorial Norma present, on Wednesday November 4th, the most recent edition of the worldwide best seller “The Other Path” – to commemorate the 23^rd anniversary of its publication.

The presentation will take place at Centro Cultural de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, located in Camino Real 1075, San Isidro, at 7:30pm.

Fritz Dubois, director of the newspaper Peru 21; Ketín Vidal, General of the National Police of Peru; Jaime Salinas Sedó, General of the Peruvian Army; Aldo Mariátegui, director of the newspaper Correo, and the sociologist Martín Tanaka will discuss the book’s impact.