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.

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.

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.

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.

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.