While there were a few prickly sentences, overall I thought the LA Times piece was pretty good. I just sent off this letter to the editor:

Bravo for the enlightening story on Francisco Marroquin University. I’m particularly glad that the writer allowed the university’s founder, Manuel Ayau Cordon, to rebut the socialist canard that teaching free market economic analysis is a way of perpetuating the wealth and power of the business class. The rich often use government favors to stifle competition. The consistent laissez-faire policy he advocates would benefit poorer people greatly and would be detrimental to those who obtain their wealth through government subsidies, monopoly grants, and so on. That’s just as true in the U.S. as in Guatemala, by the way.