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# Gabriela Calderon de Burgos 

Fellow in Latin American Studies

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Gabriela Calderón de Burgos is a Fellow for Latin American Studies at the Cato Institute, editor of [Elca​to​.org](http://www.elcato.org/), and a columnist for [Prim​i​cias​.ec](https://Prim​i​cias​.ec) (Ecuador). She also hosts [ElCatoPodcast](https://www.elcato.org/tema-principal/podcast), which is broadcast on RadioCentro 101.3 FM in Ecuador.

She was a columnist for El Universo (Ecuador) from 2006 to 2026.

Since January 2006, she has written for El Universo, and her articles have been republished by newspapers throughout Latin America and Spain, including *El Tiempo* (Colombia), *La Prensa Gráfica* (El Salvador), *Libertad Digital* (Spain), *El Deber* (Bolivia), *El Universal* (Venezuela), *La Nación* (Argentina), and *El Diario de Hoy* (El Salvador), among others.

She is the author of *En busca de la libertad: Vida y obra de los próceres liberales en Iberoamérica* (Editorial Planeta, 2025), *Entre el instinto y la razón* (Cato Institute / Paradiso Editores, 2014), and the author of the chapter on Ecuador in the book *El estallido del populismo* (Editorial Planeta).

Calderón de Burgos earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from York College of Pennsylvania in 2004 and a master’s degree in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University in 2007.

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