Pinochet

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Chile was an experiment for capitalism, particularly what Naomi Klein calls Disaster Capitalism

Lives were 'disappeared' if there was opposition, especially organised labour or union activists

That Pinochet felt safe coming to this country is testament to our support for their policies, policies that spread through south America wherever resistance to capitalism sprang up, leading to the Nicaraguan episode that showed just how involved the corporate system was prepared to go.

shameful business
 
Chile was an experiment for capitalism, particularly what Naomi Klein calls Disaster Capitalism

Lives were 'disappeared' if there was opposition, especially organised labour or union activists

That Pinochet felt safe coming to this country is testament to our support for their policies, policies that spread through south America wherever resistance to capitalism sprang up, leading to the Nicaraguan episode that showed just how involved the corporate system was prepared to go.

shameful business

Absolutely but it was not just MT also the States were nodding approval and don't forget what the states got upto in Central America.
 
Absolutely but it was not just MT also the States were nodding approval and don't forget what the states got upto in Central America.

Terrible experiment, and continued, continues, today, just that the tactics are a lot more subtle and a greater emphasis on propaganda and scapegoating

The US was beyond complicit, it was a driver, Friedman and the Chicago school had been banging the drum in the US for many years, Pinochet gave them the opportunity
 
Only 30,000 dead? Pah!

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