Word: pinochets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pinochet fumbles, a faltering economy provokes violence...
Until recently such an open challenge to the stern regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte would have been unthinkable. A notoriously repressive dictator, Pinochet has regularly silenced his opposition with torture, killings and exile. In the 9½ years since he took power in the bloody coup that overthrew Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, Pinochet has also maintained control by bringing remarkable prosperity to the Andean nation. But Chile's economic miracle may have run its course. After a booming 7.3% average yearly expansion of the economy from 1977 to 1981, Chile suffered a catastrophic 13% negative growth rate...
...current troubles represent a severe setback for Pinochet's attempt to make his country a laboratory for the monetarist economic theories espoused by University of Chicago Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman. Guided by advisers known as the "Chicago boys," Pinochet revamped economic policy, which under Allende had led to 600% inflation and riots over food shortages. He sold 400 ailing state-owned companies, ended price controls and most state subsidies, and encouraged foreign trade by slashing import tariffs from almost 100% to an average of 10%. The resulting economic boom encouraged most Chileans to overlook Pinochet's repressive campaigns...
...Chile, where Augusto Pinochet had headed a military junta with strong American support for the last 10 years, Amnesty International is investigating the "disappearances" of 250 prisoners of conscience. All political parties and activities are banned in Chile, and the government routinely makes arrests, banishes dissidents to remote areas of the country, holds people incommunicado for weeks, and worse. Justice is meager. One man, Guillermo Rodriguez Morales, was accused in 1981 of killing a government agent and sentenced to life imprisonment after a 45 minute trial...
...about. That the war is over. As if, in the first place, Vietman was what this movement was all about, just Vietnam and not about a bigger war. Vietman did't happen by it self, or by accident. The same system that backed Thieu and Diem backed Somoza, backs Pinochet and Duarts; Vietman, is this sense, is still with us. In a bad mood, one can make the arguments that times have worsened. Vietnam, set against a backdrop of liberal progress at home and an awakening concern for others abroad, appeared a great aberration, an enormous contradiction. But EI Salvador...