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To be honest, I do not see any difference in torture done by Castro’s leftists from the torture done by Pinochet’s “rightists”. At least after Pinochet Chile wa
by drno123 5y ago
To be honest, I do not see any difference in torture done by Castro’s leftists from the torture done by Pinochet’s “rightists”. At least after Pinochet Chile was left a prosperous country, while under Castro, people were risking their lives while to get away from Cuba into US.
- stevebmark 5y agoI personally don't have enough economic experience to definitively say if Friedman's far right free market ideas are inherently bad (except for the super elite), nor can I definitively say left ideas of socialism and government infrastructure inherently better. The significant difference I see is that democracies tend not to produce free market economies, and Friedman is open about his policies taking advantage of crises to help enforce them and foist them on an otherwise willing country.
- disambiguation 5y agonot sure why you're getting downvoted, it's a good parallel however, i'm gonna push back on the idea that people were fleeing cuba because of castro's economics versus the US sanctions that crippled the economy