User talk:Juan Pina

Juan Pina is a Spanish classic liberal / libertarian thinker and writer. As director of monthly magazine Perfiles del siglo XXI, he has promoted the cause of individual and economic freedom throughout Spain and Latin America. In 2000 he published his Manifesto for Individual Self-Determination (in Spanish). Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1968, Juan Pina is the author of hundreds of opinion and editorial articles on politics, economy and related matters. In the 90s he was strongly involved in the civil movement of Spaniards opposing the Spanish government's claim to annex Gibraltar, and advocating a democratic decolonization for the tiny territory (based on the Gibraltarian people's right to self-determination). Juan Pina has been a Vice-President of the Liberal and Radical Youth Movement of the European Community (LYMEC) (1990-1992), the International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth (IFLRY) (1991-1997) and the Liberal International (1997-2002). He was involved in the foundation of the Centro Democratico y Social (CDS) political party's youth wing. The CDS nominated him as candidate to the European Parliament in the 1999 European Elections. This Spanish liberal party has vanished from the Spanish political scene. Juan Pina has not become a member of any other party after he left the CDS in 2002. Personal website: www.juanpina.com