

At the center lies an open-space auditorium, called “Freedom Nucleus.” From there, an audience of about 100 can admire the glass-windowed library, large wooden panels and a handful of small meeting spaces all located at different levels surrounding the auditorium. Walking around the university’s main building can feel like being inside a Jenga tower. But you can never give up, you have to keep fighting for the right things, for the truth. They spend the whole time trying to block everything. “What do you think the biggest hurdle was to do this?” he asked a crowd in a video posted to social media. Salinas has embraced the moniker “Tio Richi,” or “Uncle Rich,” from followers and has analyzed Scrooge McDuck for his blog. That has included touring the Mediterranean on a four-floor yacht, counting down the end to his three month-long summer vacation and landing his helicopter at the new campus. In the past few months Salinas has taken to his X account to argue against paying taxes - which he claims only serve to prop up the corrupt political class - and to continue to flaunt his lavish lifestyle which he unapologetically says serves as an inspiration for others to aspire for the very best.

His views on government overreach are reflected in his frequent clashes with authorities, sparring with regulators or battling in court with bondholders over hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. The self-funded university is the latest endeavor for a magnate whose investments run from media to retail to banking. One of his sons, who was previously among the first students at Humanitree, will now attend the new university, according to a person familiar with the family’s plans. The traditional, “obsolete and deficient” education system doesn’t work for young people, Salinas wrote in a blog post in June, so he set out to build his own. The campus shares the space with part of another educational pet project, Humanitree, which offers K-12 education. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.(Bloomberg) - Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who frequently rails against “cavemen governments” and communists on social media, has founded a libertarian university where executives from his group will teach courses focused on business skills and leadership.Ĭlasses at Universidad de la Libertad, or Freedom University, start this week at a sleek new building near Mexico City’s Santa Fe neighborhood. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.

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