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  Hernando de Soto (explorer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1514, de Soto accompanied Pedro Arias de Ávila to the Spanish colonies, landing in Panama.
De Soto discovered the city of Cajas, where his men raped and married the sacred virgins in the Temple of the Sun.
De Soto's men were, at the same time, the first and the last Europeans to experience the prime of the Mississippian culture.
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 Hernando de Soto (economist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
De Soto and his admirers claim that these reforms played a major role in the decline of the Shining Path and the capture of their leaders.
De Soto claimed that the foundation for economic success of American and Japanese capitalism relied on a clear system of property rights which was created during the times of the 'frontier' in America and in Pre-WWI Feudal Japan.
Regardless of whether de Soto himself is "partisan", his beliefs, which posit relatively painless capitalist solutions to poverty are attractive to free-market and libertarian institutions such as the World Bank, The Economist, and the Cato Institute the last of which endorses and promotes his views as their solution to problems of poverty.
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 Commanding Heights : Hernando de Soto | on PBS
HERNANDO DE SOTO: The difference between being in the U.S. and being in Peru is that a very small number of people in the U.S. are concerned with development for the very simple reason they're already developed, while development is what we're all about in the Third World.
HERNANDO DE SOTO: Capitalism of course is in trouble, because as usual it is only catching on among the top 20, 10 percent of the population of Latin American countries that have got their property rights paperized in a way that they can enter the market.
HERNANDO DE SOTO: There's a message in my book which is the result of the research and the conclusions my colleagues and I came to as a result of very practical empirical experience in many developing countries throughout the world.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_hernandodesoto.html   (11320 words)

  
 Ron Shealer: de Soto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
De Soto would initially be written of as a great explorer but, would be later viewed as a destroyer of native culture; however, in truth de Soto was neither a hero or a villain but, in reality a man of his era and place of birth.
De Soto lingered in the land of the Apalachee for five months spending the winter because of the abundance of food in spite of the constant guerrilla warfare the Indians utilized (Varner & Varner 176-184).
De Soto never found the great wealth he was seeking and his expedition was a failure; however, the written accounts of the expedition provide clues about the numerous peoples encountered and their cultures.
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 A World Connected - Hernando de Soto: Targeted by Peruvian Terrorists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hernando de Soto, an economist and founder of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima, Peru, grew up in Europe and served as managing director of one of Europe's largest engineering firms.
De Soto and his colleagues discovered that governments in postwar Peru passed an average of 28,000 laws and regulations each year limiting Peruvian's ability to produce and distribute wealth.
In the early 1980s, De Soto discovered that 90 percent of all small industrial enterprises, 85 percent of urban transport, 60 percent of Peru's fishing fleet (one of the largest in the world), and 60 percent of its food stores operated outside of the law.
www.aworldconnected.org /article.php/309.html   (876 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hernando de Soto
De Soto played a prominent part in the engagements which completed the conquest of Peru, including the battle which resulted in the capture of Cuzco, the capital.
The ten ships of de Soto shortly after arrived in the harbour of Santiago de Cuba where the members of the expedition were well received by the Cubans, whose fêtes in honour of the new-comers lasted several weeks.
De Soto now ordered Diego Maldonado, a captain of infantry who had served him well, to give up his command, and take two ships with which he was to explore the coast of Florida for a distance of one hundred leagues to the west of Aute, and map out its bays and inlets.
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 Hernando de Soto, exploration through Oklahoma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They were Hernando de Soto and his followers, the first known white men to see the inland course of the mighty Mississippi which rolled at their feet.
De Soto fully expected to find such fabulous riches as he had seen in Peru when he aided Pizarro in the conquest of that land, for there were rumors of a country so rich in gold that its king was completely gilded, and he was known as "El Dorado" or "The Gilded One".
De Soto's expedition, with that of Coronado, which was made at the same time, almost spanned the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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 MSN Encarta - Hernando de Soto
This was a meaningless title unless de Soto could colonize part of the largely unknown land of Florida.
For four years, de Soto and his soldiers explored some 906,000 sq km (350,000 sq mi) in what is now the southeastern United States of America.
De Soto made enemies of the indigenous people by seizing grain, burning villages, and enslaving villagers.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574754/De_Soto_Hernando.html   (572 words)

  
 Capital and Property Rights - Mises Institute
Hernando de Soto, president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru, and author of the acclaimed The Other Path (1990)—in which he investigates the "informal sector" of Peru’s economy—has taken a different approach in his new book, The Mystery of Capital.
According to de Soto, the poor of Third-World countries are not victims of rapacious capitalism, but rather are wronged by the lack of property rights and with outright bureaucratic barriers that prevent the poor from gaining access to capital.
Obviously, de Soto directly contradicts the claim made by leftists that the seemingly intractable poverty that characterizes so much of the world’s population is caused by capitalism both in the West and the Third World.
www.mises.org /story/663   (1466 words)

  
 The Mystery of Capital: Interview with Hernando de Soto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hernando de Soto is president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) headquartered in Lima, Peru.
Hernando de Soto: Regarding other services such as health and education, I don't see how you can provide services adequately -- and have a collection system that allows these services to be sustainable over time -- without knowing what the property arrangements are behind each plot of land.
Hernando de Soto: In the first place, I believe that many of the problems that we are now facing on a macroeconomic level would not have occurred if property rights reform had taken place, enabling most citizens to participate in the global economy.
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 Reason magazine -- Hernando De Soto Interview
De Soto, the best-selling author of The Other Path (1989) and founder/director of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy, is a champion of market economics and property rights in a part of the world that historically has shown little interest in such ideas.
De Soto: Agrarian reform is a process by means of which government assigns lands to the peasants.
De Soto: I am going to give you an answer related more to the countryside than to the city, simply because the argument comes out more clearly there.
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 Hernando De Soto: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
De Soto was born in the Spanish province of Extremadura (near Portugal).
De Soto returned to Spain in 1536, and was granted the rights to conquer Florida and was named governor of Cuba in 1537.
De Soto died during the explorations and was buried on the banks of the Mississippi River in late June, 1542.
www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/d/desoto.shtml   (281 words)

  
 Hernando de Soto Site
Hernando de Soto was given the task of conquering La Florida, which covered the area from the Chesapeake Bay to northeastern Mexico.
De Soto occupied the Apalachee village for the winter, facing constant harassment by the Apalachee.
De Soto died on May 21, 1542, and was buried in the Mississippi River to prevent his body from being desecrated by Indians.
www.taltrust.org /de_soto.htm   (531 words)

  
 Hernando de Soto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
De Soto was one of the first to take up this challenge.
De Soto firmly believes that this basic idea–that people, when empowered and unrestricted, can build a strong economy from the ground up–can be implemented almost anywhere around the world.
De Soto is now designing and implementing capital formation programs for the poor in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
www.cipe.org /publications/fs/ert/e34/e34_10.htm   (498 words)

  
 Hernando De Soto Biography
When the renowned Hernando De Soto, who had been in close attendance on Pizarro throughout his romantic career in Peru, asked for and obtained permission from Ferdinand of Spain to take possession of Florida in his name, hundreds of volunteers of every rank flocked to his standard.
Intending to take possession of Mavilla in his usual high-handed manner, De Soto and a few of his men entered the palisades forming its defences, accompanied by the cacique, who, meek enough until he was within reach of his warriors, then turned upon his guests with some insulting speech and disappeared in a neighboring house.
To De Soto, however, it was no geographical phenomenon, inviting him to trace its course and solve the secret of its origin, but a sheet of water, "half a league over," impeding his progress, and his first care was to obtain boats to get to the other side.
www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_I/hernandod_bh.html   (961 words)

  
 Frank Porter Graham Lectureship
De Soto presented the Frank Porter Graham Lecture, sponsored by the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences, on October 26, 2004.
A finalist for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, de Soto is the president and founder of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima.
Founded in 1980, de Soto's institute is credited for developing legal property systems that have moved hundreds of thousands of businesses and real estate holdings from the underground economy into the economic mainstream, and revolutionized the way world leaders address enduring poverty.
www.johnstoncenter.unc.edu /events/desoto.html   (853 words)

  
 The De Soto Delusion - Peruvian Economist Hernando de Soto's ideas for helping the poor have made him a global ...
De Soto calls all this informally held property "dead capital," because it can't be leveraged to produce growth—it can't be mortgaged, because it lacks a proper title to guarantee it as collateral.
De Soto is right to point out the importance of legally sorting out who owns what in the Third World.
On the level of gee-whiz metaphors and moving rhetoric, de Soto deserves a lot of credit: He's brought an unprecedented degree of attention and funding to the vital and fascinating issue of squatters and informal economies.
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 Hernando De Soto Expedition -- Brown Quarterly -- v. 2, no. 1 -- Fall 1997
Hernando de Soto was about 14 years old when he first sailed from Spain, probably in 1514, bound for a conquistador's life in the New World.
De Soto and half of his men did not survive; thousands of Indians were killed in battle.
De Soto's invasion and its aftermath permanently ravaged the life-ways of the southeastern Indians.
brownvboard.org /brwnqurt/02-1/02-1b.htm   (1023 words)

  
 De Soto, Hernando on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
There De Soto died; he was buried in the river, so that the Native Americans, whom he had intimidated and ill-used, would not learn of his death.
Hernando de Soto (L), founder and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy inreduce poverty through reforms that expand access to legal protection.
Hernando de Soto, founder and president of The Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru, speaks 20 January, 2006, at UN headquarters in
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 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - The Region- Hernando DeSoto Interview (June 2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Political pressure kept Hernando de Soto's family out of his native Peru when he was a child, but his father insisted that Hernando and his brothers return to their native country each summer to stay connected with their homeland.
All leading back to de Soto's fundamental query: "The question of why these different countries are more prosperous than the others has always been in the back of my mind.
de Soto: What I take from the word capital is a notion of value, very much discussed by classical economists throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, going all the way from Adam Smith to Karl Marx, who said it was the most important part of the economy.
www.minneapolisfed.org /pubs/region/01-06/desoto.cfm   (7595 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas
Soto was not born in Villanueva de Barcarrota, a tiny pueblo eleven miles from Jerez de los Caballeros, as Garcilaso de la Vega claims, with no proof whatsoever.
Soto's most famous ancestor was Pedro Ruiz de Soto, a Knight of Santiago who served as King Ferdinand III's captain general in the mid-thirteenth century.
Soto's parents, remains, which briefly stood a chance of being preserved in grandiose style, are now lost, the bones long ago having turned to dust and dissolved into the bare, hardscrabble earth of Extremadura.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/hernandodesoto.htm   (3836 words)

  
 Hernando de Soto Arrives and Explores Florida
Hernando de Soto was given the title Governor of Cuba by the king of Spain, Carlos V, in 1536.
Hernando de Soto then sent a small group of men back to lead his main group northward to be reunited with them.
De Soto and his men were positioned in the surrounding woods in anticipation of an ambush.
fcit.usf.edu /florida/lessons/de_soto/de_soto1.htm   (830 words)

  
 Hernando de Soto
On May 28, 1539, the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto landed with an army of 620 men and 223 horses in Florida, probably not far from Tampa Bay.
More than anything, de Soto wanted to be like his fellow Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who had enriched himself ravishing the Aztec capital at Mexico City in 1521, and Francisco Pizarro, who through treachery and barbarism had robbed the riches of the Peruvian Incas just seven years earlier, in 1532.
The army crossed the river and continued wandering, de Soto died farther downriver in 1542, and the remnants of de Soto's army never found gold.
www.backyardnature.net /loess/de_soto.htm   (643 words)

  
 Hernando de Soto: a Biography by Dr. Lawrence A. Clayton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
De Soto, «dih SOH toh,» Hernando (1500?-1542), a Spanish explorer, helped to defeat the Inca empire and led the first European expedition to reach the Mississippi River.
De Soto was born in the province of Extremadura in Spain.
On May 21, 1542, de Soto died from a fever by the banks of the Mississippi River.
www.floridahistory.com /larrys.html   (529 words)

  
 Floripedia: De Soto, Hernando
Near the Savannah River De Soto was met by the Indian queen of the province of Colitachiqui.
After this battle De Soto learned that his ships were at Pensacola Bay—only a few days' journey from Mauvilla; but he kept their arrival a secret from his men, fearing that they would all want to return home.
De Soto next turned to the northwest on the journey that led him to the Mississippi.
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 Amazon.com: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else: Books: Hernando De ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As de Soto points out by way of example, in Egypt, the wealth the poor have accumulated is worth 55 times as much as the sum of all direct foreign investment ever recorded there, including that spent on building the Suez Canal and the Aswan Dam.
De Soto's impeccably pro-capitalist credentials make his initial criticism especially convincing: actual capitalism in most of the world is restricted to a small elite, while most remain on the outside looking in.
De Soto fundamentally argues that the reason poor countries are poor is because they have bad property rights: it's incredibly difficult for poor people (specifically, recent urban migrants) to get legal title to their land.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465016146?v=glance   (2898 words)

  
 ILD: Hernando de Soto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
de Soto is currently President of the ILD —headquartered in Lima, Peru— considered by The Economist as one of the two most important think tanks in the world.
de Soto as one of the most important development theoreticians of the last millennium.
de Soto, together with his colleagues at the ILD, is focused on designing and implementing capital formation programs to empower the poor in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and former Soviet Nations.
www.ild.org.pe /eng/hsoto.htm   (336 words)

  
 FLORIDA OF THE CONQUISTADOR
Ponce de Leon was pierced in the thigh by a reed arrow.
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, a survivor of an ill-fated landing in Calusa country in 1517, traveled the Florida shore to the Mississippi River, verifying Ponce de Leon's claim Florida was not an island.
The red-haired conquistador hired de Vaca as a partner and together in 1527, landed north of the mouth of Tampa Bay with an armada of five ships and 400 soldiers.
www.floridahistory.org /floridians/conquis.htm   (2181 words)

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