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Radio Free Acton: Daniel Garza on Latinos and the liberty movement
Radio Free Acton: Daniel Garza on Latinos and the liberty movement
Oct 28, 2025 12:25 AM

Daniel Garza at the Acton Lecture Series – November 17, 2016

On this edition of Radio Free Acton, we speak with Daniel Garza, Executive Director of The LIBREInitiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the principles and values of economic freedom within the munity.

According to political conventional wisdom, the munity is a natural constituency of progressive politicians and part of an emerging progressive permanent majority in the United States. Garza counters this narrative by noting the fact that conservative values are well represented in the munity, and that the success of progressives in attracting Latino votes can at least in part be attributed to a failure to municate the principles of free markets and individual liberty to Latino voters.

You can listen to this edition of Radio Free Acton via the audio player below.

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