September 11, 1973: The start of the global neoliberal dictatorship

[nomoba]

September 11, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile that ousted democratically-elected Salvador Allende in 1973 and led to a 17-year repressive dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. Chile became the first lab-rat of neoliberalism. Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys advise dictator Pinochet to kill the state and privatize everything. Chile was occupied by big cartels, US interests companies, people suffered from poverty and from Pinochet's cruel regime.

[tuwix]

Pinochet's Chile were just laboratory of neoliberalism. They show what can and what cannot be applied. But neoliberalism as global ideology started to be by rules of Reagan and Thatcher.

[Bala Perdida]

Where do you keep getting these date threads from? Sounds like you're pulling them from a book or webpage.

[nomoba]

failedevolution.blogspot

[rottenapple]

Pinochet's Chile were just laboratory of neoliberalism. They show what can and what cannot be applied. But neoliberalism as global ideology started to be by rules of Reagan and Thatcher.

Seems like we can look at Reagan's presidency and see the beginning of a lot of bad shit to come

[Viktor89]

In jail in 2011 I read a book by a survivor from Pinochet's concentration camps. He was arrested shortly after the coup, sent to that damn stadium, he describes it, how horrible it was. After some time there they took the prisoners on a boat, threw them in some shitty room under deck and they thought they would be murdered and thrown into the water. They arrived at some concentration camp where they went through more hell. Worth reading. It's called 11 september 1973 by Jorge Contreras. One of the few books that has made me cry for real.