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Chile's earlier pension system was based on the American model. By the mid-1970s it faced a financing meltdown that presented the government of General Augusto Pinochet with two familiar options: cut benefits or raise taxes. Instead Pinochet scrapped the payroll tax-financed system altogether and replaced it with a small, flat stipend, funded out of the government's general revenues, that goes to only the poorest pensioners. Everyone else is required to put 12% of salary into one of 24 large investment funds that the government tightly regulates. The results, say boosters of the Chilean solution...
...London and Washington with Beijing's toughened posture on a variety of issues ranging from Hong Kong's future to human rights to nuclear proliferation. U.S. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake recently described China as a "backlash," or antidemocratic, state like Iran, Iraq or Chile under General Augusto Pinochet. So concerned is the Clinton Administration with the deteriorating relationship that Secretary of State Warren Christopher has launched a high-level effort to turn things around, beginning with the dispatch to Beijing this week of John Shattuck, the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights. The Christopher initiative promptly ran into...
...with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, democratic principles merely temper a style reminiscent of a Latin American caudillo, complete with ceremonial-sashed portrait displayed in all police stations and paternalistic rhetoric reminiscent of Peron or Pinochet. Yet his major internal opposition comes from an even more extreme group: the Croatian Party of Rights, which unabashedly honors the memory of the fascist, Hitler-backed state that flourished briefly during World...
LATIN AMERICA Chile has been successfully selling off public companies since 1985 and stands a solid chance of making privatization pay off. But its experience is a cautionary tale: the former military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte did not have to worry about public opinion or the press, which opposed the asset sales. Between 1985 and 1989, the government sold 24 state enterprises, raising $1.7 billion...
...investigate past abuses, a pledge he made last year shortly after he was democratically elected. Whether anyone will ultimately be brought to justice remains uncertain. While still in power, the military decreed an amnesty that shields its agents from prosecution for political crimes committed between 1973 and 1978, and Pinochet, who remains head of the army, has warned against putting any of his men on trial. To help the nation heal its wounds, Aylwin is proposing giving financial compensation to the families of victims, including pension, health and housing benefits...