I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, but didn't Argentina get fucked by the IMF? I know a lot of those South American countries were essentially hollowed ou

I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, but didn't Argentina get fucked by the IMF? I know a lot of those South American countries were essentially hollowed out by IMF and forced to privatize a lot of their natural resources resulting in tremendous amounts of wealth inequality and a shrinking of their middle classes. Of course, this is along with US Military backed coups happening left and right to any country which didn't privatize their countries resources so that American and Western European corporations could get "their share" (i.e. Nestle which still controls something like 90% of the bottled water market in South and Central America). Gotta love Friedman and his Chicago boys! "If no one will elect us to power, we'll just support dictators! Free market principles at their finest!" - My made up quote for Milton Friedman, Jack Lew, and all the rest of those cronies. Anyways, I'm at work, so I can't look up sources, but "Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein is a great read about this sort of thing.