Instituto Millenium
| Founder(s) |
Patrícia Carlos de Andrade Denis Rosenfield |
|---|---|
| Established | 2005 |
| Focus | New Right, Economics |
| Chairman | Priscila Barbosa Pereira Pinto |
| Key people |
Gustavo Franco Rodrigo Constantino |
| Budget |
Revenue (2012): $524,391 Expenses (2012): $494,330 |
| Location | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Website | imil |
The Instituto Millenium (Millennium Institute), also known by the acronym Imil (or IMIL), is a Brazilian "advocacy think tank" based in Rio de Janeiro. It was created in 2005 by the economist Patrícia Carlos de Andrade and the Philosophy professor Denis Rosenfield, to disseminate a world view based on economic liberalism (or "modern right"). According to Observatório da Imprensa, it has the support of large corporations and media groups, with the aim of influencing the Brazilian society through the diffusion of ideas of its representatives, experts and columnists.
The Instituto Millenium (Imil) was founded in 2005 as "Instituto de Estudos da Realidade Nacional" (Institute for the Study of National Reality), a name that curiously resembles the Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Nacional where Armand Mattelart was a professor-researcher at the Salvador Allende's socialist Chile. In 2009, Imil became a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest (OSCIP), the equivalent of a U.S. non-profit organization 501(c)(3).
Imil discloses its world view through "seminars, conferences and meetings around the country, contact with the press and publishing daily analysis on the portal." Of course, the fact that it is sponsored by media groups makes this outreach work more easy.
Officially, Imil declares itself as "unrelated to political parties." But its disclosed values ("individual freedom, property rights, market economy, representative democracy, rule of law and institutional limits to government action"), attracts thinkers, politicians and personalities linked to a conservative ideological spectrum and to economic liberalism. Imil, however, do not assume itself as "liberal", since according to its founder, Patricia Carlos de Andrade, this word was incorrectly translated in Brazil as "rightist" or "supporter of military dictatorships."
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