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THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE Arnold Harberger loves in Chile. He married a Chilean. By his count, 100 to 150 of his students are economists there. He consulted for the Central Bank of Chile during Alessandri Frei's rule in the '60s, and for the Pinochet government's electric company in the past two years. His ties with Chile go all the way back to the '50s, when the University of Chicago, his home base, started an exchange program with Catholic University in Santiago. Arnold Harberger sincerely loves Chile...
...story of his inability to see the truth of what his ties with the Pinochet dictatorship mean for the people of Chile is one of naivete, myopia and poignance. It is also the story of a man's deeply flawed moral judgement. In essence, Harberger puts the welfare if the people he knows and loves before the welfare of an entire people; he fails to imagine the suffering of people he does not know...
...bodies found crammed into unmarked coffins in a Santiago cemetery? Chile? The international pariah that refuses to extradite to the U.S. the former head of the Chilean secret service and two other army officers indicted for murder by a federal grand jury? Yes, Chile, where Military Dictator Augusto Pinochet is simultaneously tightening his grip on the government and freeing up the economy...
...boutiques stuffed with madras dresses from India, art supplies from Germany and motorcycles from Japan. The adjoining streets are jammed with honking hordes of shiny cars and trucks of every modern make. Workers are digging trenches for an extension of the Santiago subway. However, La Moneda palace, where Pinochet's predecessor, Marxist Salvador Allende, was killed in 1973, remains begrimed and run down...
First, the U.S. should be especially wary of embracing dictatorships that have sprung up in countries with democratic traditions, like Chile and Greece. The Pinochet junta is an aberration in modern Chilean history and may well go the way of the Greek Colonels. The same could be true of Ferdinand Marcos, although democracy in the Philippines has always been fragile and turbulent. Conversely, the U.S. has little choice but to tolerate military rule where it is the norm. For example, South Korea's Park Chung Hee suppresses dissent by an "emergency decree" superficially similar to Marcos' martial...