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I don't understand the use of Chicago as a verb, can you help? Also, do we explicitly know it was the US, or just implicitly?
by boppo1 5y ago
I don't understand the use of Chicago as a verb, can you help? Also, do we explicitly know it was the US, or just implicitly?
- guerrilla 5y agoThey're referring to the CIA assisted fascist coup where the Chicago Boys "ran" the economy afterward using it as a place to experiment with their ideology. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
- boppo1 5y agoThank you.
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoThanks for the explanation, I interpreted as 'Chicago'd' as a reference to the city of Chicago's high violent-crime rate.
- lucian1900 5y agoI guess the Chicago police murdering black communists fits too, although I hadn’t thought of that initially.