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HOLA,

Welcome to my profile. My name is Luis Guillermo Pineda Rodas and I begun editing Wikipedia in 2006. I got my BA in International Relations with an specialization in International Commerce in 2008 from Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM) in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Currently, I am a Philosophy student at the Objectivist Academic Center and a MA Social Sciences candidate from Universidad Francisco Marroquín.

The most influential writers I have read are:

Ayn Rand, Nietzsche, Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Robert Nozick, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges.

I am always reading books on Objectivist philosophy, free market economics and specially Comparative History with emphasis in imperialism and power relations.

Some quick facts about me

Metaphysics: Objective Reality.
Epistemology: Reason.
Ethics: Rational Selfishness.
Politics: Laissez-faire Capitalism.
Esthetics: Romanticism.
Food: Sushi.
Scene: bon vivant au the library.
My favorite quote ever is: "swear by my Life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine." John Galt in Atlas Shrugged.
I was the author of a blog titled Homo Homini Lupus. The name was taken from reading "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes where I found the quote that explains the historical and philosophical origin of "Man is the wolf of man". The blog got deleted in 2010 by hackers. I had reached more than half million readers and around 30K visited my site every month.
My Flickr username is guillermogg
I have a tattoo of Darwin's first drawing of the tree of evolution.
I worked for several years as a Collection Development head and Bibliographer at Biblioteca Ludwig von Mises and most of my free time I spend it reading and listening to music.
I am currently Director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism.
I own a black French Poodle called Lolita (as in Nabokov's book).
I do not play sports and I cannot remember when was the last time I had to kick a ball.
I was a National Champion of Chess when I was 15 years old.
The first book I bought with my own money was an Advanced Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. The Second book I ever bought was the National Geographic Atlas.
I haven't wear and not even owned a pair of shorts since I was 14 (update, I bought my first pair of shorts in the summer of 2008).
I drink more than 5 cups of coffee a day and love drinking Coca Cola.
I have always thought I belong to the clothing fashion of the 60s and the lifestyle of the 70s.
I am terribly scared of chipmunks and mice. I love riding horses and I had a passion for collecting toys of Elephants when I was a kid.
I have watched all of Star Trek episodes thrice.
I hate watching TV and just watching people stare at it bothers me.
I have a collection of more than a hundred empty yellow highlighters I have used since January, 2003.

You are welcome to edit, revise and replace information in my contributions and I will be very glad if you can improve them.

Articles I have contributed to considerably:

The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek.
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Plus hundreds of links to external resources for articles linked to Objectivism, Philosophy and Contemporary History. I am usually checking for misquotes or wrong-lies-invalid references to facts.

BTW, I hate contributing material for Wikipedia (en idioma español) because they almost ALWAYS make a mess out of it by the "so-called arbitration".

External Links

My current blog - Capitalismo