I was saddened to learn of the passing yesterday of Dr. Eduardo Morgan Jr., who was instrumental in CF&P’s early efforts to establish and coordinate a global response to overreaches of the OECD, a leader in the movement for freedom, and a good friend and mentor to me personally.
Dr. Morgan served as Panama’s Minister of Government and Justice in 1968, as the president’s personal envoy to the government of Japan from 1979 to 1982, and as Ambassador of the Republic of Panama in Washington, DC from 1996 to 1998.
It was in his role as U.S. ambassador that Dr. Morgan saw the frustrating hypocrisy of U.S. leaders’ attacks on low-tax jurisdictions that sought to compete for investment and capital using many of the same policies, such as respect for financial privacy, prevalent in parts of the United States.
And it was our mutual understanding of the threat posed by organizations like the OECD to the economic wellbeing of countries such as Panama that brought us together. His influence and leadership helped us fight and win crucial early battles against the global tax elite.
CF&P, and really the entire freedom movement, will undoubtedly miss Dr. Morgan’s advocacy and leadership, but I am truly saddened at the loss of this great man… Thank you Eduardo for your friendship and love… God bless you… Rest in peace.
