Nicolás Morás

Nicolás Morás
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Born	1994 (age 29–30)
🏳️ Nationality	Argentine
💼 Occupation	journalist
📆 Years active	since 2010
Known for	journalism, libertarian activism
Notable work	La Dictadura Silenciosa (2018); La Historia no Contada del Liberalismo (2019); Francisco: El Jesuita (2020).

Nicolás Morás (born in 1994) is an Argentine journalist, documentary filmmaker and libertarian activist who currently lives in Brazil. He's considered as one of the most influential anarcho-capitalist communicators of the Hispanic world.

Career

First years

Morás started his journalistic career in 2010 as an Argentine correspondent for the Spanish newspaper Libertad Digital. He resigned a year later for ideological reasons, arguing that he was censored while interviewing Nobel Prize-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa. A year later, he joined the anarchist think tank free-market Center for Stateless Society as a researcher. In 2013, he became the youngest columnist for Infobae at only 18 years-old, and in 2014, for La Voz del Interior. In both newspapers, he was an outspoken critic of the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and he also spoke out against the foreign policy of the United States during the Obama administration.

That year in the Santiago Cuneo´s show Uno Mas Uno Tres, Nicolás Morás revealed the acquisition by the country’s Ministry of Security (run by Patricia Bullrich) of Israeli spy software Pegasus during Mauricio Macri’s presidency. On the occasion of the reform of the Argentine Penal Code in 2018, an attempt was made to legalize the use of this software by the Executive Power with the intention of monitoring all citizens’ own mobile phones, computers and other devices without requiring a previous court order. In the end, the application of the law was frustrated after parliamentary blocs opposed to Macri's government recognized Morás’ original denunciations, which were ratified by Human Rights Organizations such as CELS (Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales). Today the arbitrary use of Pegasus is being investigated by the Argentine Federal Justice, which imputed Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich on charges of illegal espionage.

Career consolidation

In April 2018, Nicolás Morás became a columnist and political analyst for the television network HispanTV; shortly after, he became a regular guest in other international channels such as NTN24 and Telesur. As a lobbyists’ operations critic (and their influence in public politics), Morás is often consulted by important Spanish-speaking media.

In 2018 he released his first documentary, La Dictadura Silenciosa: Censura Sionista en el Cono Sur (The Silent Dictatorship: Zionist censorship in South America), where he reveals what he considers to be the strategies that Latin American lobbies -associated with the Israel government- apply to persecute dissidents. For his investigation, Morás researched court documents, historical archives and public figures testimonies that span the entire political spectrum.

During the 2019 broadcast of HispanTV´s program Detrás de la Razón, Morás was censored again when he tried to mention the alliances of Spain’s left-wing president Pedro Sánchez and vice-president Pablo Iglesias with the Saudi monarchy. This occurs in the context of Assange´s arrest in London.

Since then Morás mostly works on his own journalist project, Los Liberales (The Libertarians), a web portal created to spread a libertarian perspective on politics, geo-politics, and global economy. In the present, Los Liberales has more than 190 thousand YouTube channel subscribers.

In 2020 Morás released “La Historia no Contada del Liberalismo” (The Untold Story of Libertarianism), a film where he shows the successes and failures of classical liberalism and libertarianism, from their precedents in the philosophers Epicurus and Lao Tzu to the present day. Morás strongly vindicates Anarcho-capitalism and criticizes libertarian parties and think tanks, such as Naumann Foundation or Cato Institute, insisting they are conditioned by governments and corporations.

An opponent to Alberto Fernández’s Peronist government, Morás moved to Brazil in the same year.

There he launched his third documentary, “Francisco, El Jesuita” (Francisco, the Jesuit), a three-hour feature film on the personal and political life of Pope Francis. Morás exhaustively exposes the controversial and well-known participation of the Pope in the last Argentina's military dictatorship (1976-1983). He also disclosed underhand connections between the Pope and current “progressive” lobbies, such as John Podesta´s Center For American Progress, the National Democratic Institute, the Open Society Foundations and the Voices for Progress business association, all of them related to the American Democratic Party and its international allies. Morás accuses the Argentine pontiff of having arrived at the Vatican through a “Catholic Spring”, a term he takes from the correspondence between John Podesta and Sandy Newman, which Wikileaks intercepted. Having surpassed one million viewers, the documentary became one of the most viewed journalistic films of the year.

Nicolás Morás at his conference

Conferences

Since 2015, concurrently to his journalistic work, Morás has made several presentations and conferences. He has given many speeches on the subjects he expertly knows. In his last talk, titled “Viviendo la distopía” (Living in Dystopia), he compared the contemporary socio-economic world order with the dystopian societies imagined by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Giovanni Papini among other writers.

Morás considers Modern States and supranational organizations such as the UN, the European Union, NATO and the World Bank as pioneers of a “subtle totalitarianism”.Viviendo la distopía’s talks were given in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Spain.

Activism

Nicolas Morás with a Julian Assange t-shirt, fighting for freedom of speech at a manifestation

In his youth, Morás briefly joined the Liberal Libertarian Party, dissolved in 2013. That same year, he led the student organization Izquierda Libertaria (Libertarian Left) with the purpose of spreading free-market anarchism ideas to leftist students. The strategies he applied were the same as those of Murray Rothbard and Karl Hess during the 1960s.

Over the years Morás has been a spokesperson in South America for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s acquit and release campaign. Morás has also participated in campaigns in defense of free trade, cryptocurrencies, contraband, drugs legalization, homosexual freedom, Palestinians human rights and against US interventionism, Crony Capitalism and mass cyber surveillance.

In 2019, he co-founded the civic platform “Libertad y Equidad" (Liberty and Equity), which brings together intellectuals and artists who oppose gender feminism and counter its cultural and political influence. He was elected president of the organization.

Political views

Nicolás Morás defines himself as a free-market anarchist. He’s deeply influenced by the Boston anarchism of Henry David Thoreau, Lysander Spooner and the radical classical liberalism of authors such as Thomas Paine, Frederic Bastiat, Richard Cobden, Gustave de Molinari and Herbert Spencer, whom he often quotes emphatically. Being a supporter of agorism and Civil Disobedience, he rejects the idea of forming libertarian parties and frequently criticizes minarchism.

Controversy

With a style of communication that the press describes as “ironic and provocative”, Morás is generally considered a radical and egotistical opinion leader. Within libertarian circles, Morás’ libertarian criticism of Israel's nation-state, similar to that of Murray Rothbard and Justin Raimondo, has been questioned too.

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