Las Portadas
Las Portadas, Spanish for "The Portals," is a freenation of autonomous residential and commercial freezones and citizen-owned states (CitSOPs) that are governed by the natural laws of the market and the universal code of nonaggression. Its purpose is to incubate and support them on a contractual basis and at multiple levels. Participating investors and promotors negotiate large-scale purchases and long-term leases of real estate from governments, privatize government properties and services, and market them to Members and Associates. No money changes hands until a host agrees to the terms offered.
Some territories suitable for Las Portadas transitional activity include:
- The Republic of Haiti, under Doug Casey's CitSOP campaign,
- The African islands off of the northern coast of the former Somalia (Saacada Diin and Ceebaad - currently under review by Awdal Roads Corporation), Tanzania (Mafia Island), Yemen (The Brothers), Sudan (Suakin Archipelago), and Mauritania (Ile Tidra),
- Pacific islands in Palau, the Philippines, Polynesia, Indonesia, and Micronesia,
- Burma (Coco Islands, Preparo Island),
- India (Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands),
- Thailand, Indonesia, Fiji
- Baja Mexico (Isla Cedros, Sierra Viscaino),
After extensive revisions, the first purely capitalist (anarcho-capitalist) Constitution has been developed - with a deliberate and specific absence of any central governing mechanism. This ensures the development of a truly polycentric tort or property-based legal infrastructure, and spontaneous consumer-driven security. Las Portadas becomes obsolete where community membership implies formalization of a legal code that banishes institutionalized aggression.
Although self-explanatory for the most part, there are several outstanding characteristics of Las Portadas (which serves as a transitional and government interface mechanism for the autonomous freezones) that other freezone and freenation projects neglect, and are worth special mention:
- A modular transitional framework permits expandability and flexibility. Widely divergent communities throughout the world can be established or liberated from political oppression while being offered the underwriting and arbitration services of Las Portadas. In foreign dealings, only aggressors (as defined in the Civil Order Pact) are banished from a Las Portadas community. The Constitution can be implemented in any autonomous region.
- Investors have proportionate control over Las Portadas format, and at the same time do not need to be actively involved in the negotiation of acquisitions in order to prevent mismanagement, because commitments can be transferred to another project or withdrawn. If an acquisition fails, no money changes hands. Commitments are not capitalized upon until and unless a sale or lease is finalized under the terms of agreement.
- Promoters and contributors find it in their best interest to generate freezones on a perpetual basis so as to receive added and continuous benefits. Las Portadas jurisdiction over a region, along with any financial benefit from the transition, is subject to competitive forces, and is limited to a 20-year transitional period. Las Portadas is granted no immunities from competitive market forces.
- A commission-based open credit distribution mechanism is already in place. If investors make a purchase as a direct result of your efforts or persuasion, then you are automatically slated as a proportionate beneficiary of privatization proceeds. Every contributor must specify a Referrer.
- Anyone who can demonstrate that he has generated signatures of the Libertarian Pledge, or who generates registered Civil Order Pact signatures or effective Declaration of Autonomy signatures - can immediately participate on a proportional basis in the House of Legal Review in matters concerning compliance with COP, the Registry of Signatories (such as organization of the Directory), and details of Las Portadas' legal transition.
If you are interested in sponsoring an autonomous freezone for Las Portadas without risking loss of funds should a project fail, you may specify your investment desires here.
If you wish to serve as an Arbitrator for COP or a Referrer for Las Portadas, simply direct the appropriate audience to cop.b3.nu specifying yourself as "Referrer". Be sure to provide contact information for them to enter.
If you simply wish to become a citizen of Las Portadas, click here and register. You have already agreed to the Civil Order Pact. All registered COP signatories in good standing are citizens of the Las Portadas community at large.
If you would like to report that a person, organization, or site,
connected in some way with Las Portadas is not in accord with the
Civil Order Pact, click
here.