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With Cybersyn, the Allende administration hoped to solve the problems they created by intervening companies. Unfortunately, to replace a capable business owner
by partycoder 10y ago
With Cybersyn, the Allende administration hoped to solve the problems they created by intervening companies. Unfortunately, to replace a capable business owner with a politically loaded government interventor will punish the company productivity. No matter how good the intentions are (e.g: wealth distribution), political meritocracy does not translate into entrepreneurial competence.
Under Allende's administration, Chile economically became similar to what Venezuela is today, with ineffective resource distribution and widespread chaos. In part, the Chilean economy collapsed with the help of foreign sabotage driven by concerns about the growth of Soviet influence and local allies that later supported the 1973 coup, part of a series of Latin American coups now known as Operation Condor.
The military junta focused in reverting the policies that Allende impulsed, notably the confiscation of foreign owned mining assets. To achieve that, they abolished the congress, wrote a new constitution with specific provisions to protect investors from Communist-style confiscations.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoTo achieve that, they ...tortured people by thousands, threw the least desirable into the sea from helicopters. That's not becoming cool irregardless of how many positively sounding weasel words you put around "coup" and negatively sounding ones around "Allende".
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago"Capitalism: the system you're dying to try!"
- partycoder 10y agoThat was done for other reasons. The economic reforms were implemented as a part of a shorter term plan. The human rights related crimes in Chile and all countries affected by Operation Condor had the high-level objective of eradicating socialists/communists, and that was a part of a long term plan of ensuring that the policies the juntas created would not be reverted. Do I agree with using violence to support a economic/political system? no. But that was what happened.
- alvarosm 10y agoThe more truths you say, the more you'll be downvoted to oblivion by the socialist wannabes, SJW and so on. Allende was a fanatic, and that ridiculous James Bond control room for a centrally planned economy gives you an idea of the kind of idiots they were.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoHow many people did he have thrown our of helicopters?
- partycoder 10y agoI think they cannot see past the violence. Not that violence wasn't planned, or wasn't inhuman, etc. But the violence wasn't their high level objective. The only way to understand what happened is to see past the violence and understand what they really wanted to achieve, and in that sense you will understand the junta were just mercenaries.