Our visit to the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) coincided with the Inauguration of President Obama. Between the presentation and the questions we watched the inauguration of our 44th president from a high rise office building in San Isidro, Lima.

Gabriel and his colleague explained how the economy and capitalism is failing a large sector of the World's population and their plan to get this population involved in the system instead of barred by institutions and systems that have a greater cost than benefit, making it more feasible to work outside the system or "extralegally" in their obtainment of land through invasions and settlements, the expansion of houses not up to building codes, working without permits, not paying fair wages and salaries. This organization was started by Peruvian Hernando de Soto and has worked in many countries around the world; studying the situation on the ground and making a diagnostic.