The CATO Institute has a page up with lots of links featuring Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto winner of the 2004 Milton Friedman Freedom Prize.
Here's an interesting bit from an interview for the PBS program "The Commanding Heights" I googled up:
INTERVIEWER: You invited Hayek and Friedman at one point to Peru. Tell us that anecdote.Posted by Greg Ransom at April 9, 2004 11:20 PM | TrackBackHERNANDO DE SOTO: About 20 years ago, when we started getting organized and Peru's left-wing military dictatorship had just finished, we invited them to two different symposiums where there were thousands of people present, both Friedrich von Hayek at one point and Milton Friedman at the other. The objective was for Peruvians to see firsthand that these people who had been called monsters by the previous government weren't monsters and they had a very intelligent way of thinking.
The traditional way of looking at them in left-wing or Communist circles in Peru, or the propaganda they gave out, was that capitalism was the law of the jungle. It was very useful to have both Hayek and Milton in town because people all of a sudden realized that the philosophers of freedom were very sophisticated indeed, and probably much more sophisticated than the old socialist philosophers they'd been taught to revere. That gave us a starting point, because it gained respectability for the word freedom on the one hand, and secondly because both Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman, when we showed them what wasn't working among the poor and we said the law was important, it isn't getting to them, basically reacted very positively. That gave us a bearing. They said, "You're right, it doesn't sort of work automatically, you've got to install the rule of law. It's got to work."
The same thing happened when we talked to people like Ronald Coase. They said, "You're right; it isn't only a question of creating law for rich people. I didn't realize that the laws were only made for the rich, you've also got to make it for the poor."
It had two effects. One is that the Peruvian audiences started becoming aware of the fact that these people were not monsters, that these people were very sophisticated. That they had the best of [intentions]. And the other thing it gave us was confidence in the fact that when we had seen that the system didn't automatically apply, that it required major surgery, we weren't far off from the truth.