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"Pinochet's economic policy is vastly overrated" > Mining a bunch of copper, helping your cronies get rich, and pumping up land prices is not a "miracle". htt
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
"Pinochet's economic policy is vastly overrated"
> Mining a bunch of copper, helping your cronies get rich, and pumping up land prices is not a "miracle".
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/pinochets-economic-policy-is-vastly https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/pinochets-economic-policy-is-v...
It's someone broadly sympathetic to the same kind of ideas that lie behind the current article, he's just honest enough to admit in this case it was all built on propaganda.
edit to add:
Also the Wikipedia page on US intervention in Chile before and after the coup, which the original article tries to play down dramatically:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Chile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_...
- walterbell 2y agoThanks!