yea chile in 2019 is very different to chile in the 1970s and 80s

And most of the economy that is today

its been 40+ years

Is due to the measures Pinochet took

chile have had leftist governments since then my dude

Yeah

Bachelet

Horrible

@Green Syndicalism stalin was terrible too

he was communist

Pinochet and the army overthrown an democratically elected Marxist President

Bachelet was socialist

He was unsurprisingly supported by the CIA

Not extremely so

thats actually my point @GoldenGail3 you can point to individual examples from both sides of the aisle and say "look terrible economy"

But was very left wing

its about implementation really

you realise that under pinochet, chile got special US treatment economically too

and yet they still were nothing special

tells you a lot

He had a cool ass song made for him tho

under pinochet, gdp per capita went up 75% over nearly 2 decades, but since its a non-redistributive economy, that went to the rich

not the people who actually needed it

pinochet refused to do the land reform the peasants wanted

Chile is great

Better than Argentina at least

then since pinochet was booted, the leftist governments redistributed the wealth and GDP per capita has gone up MORE than 2x

and given the redistribution, more of that gdp gains went to the workers than under pinoshit

Give me data

Polls

https://tradingeconomics.com/chile/gdp-per-capita

from 1973 to 1990

gdp per capita went from 4000 to 7000ish

Nice

since then its gone to 15000

and more of it went to the workers

than under pinochet

so leftist governments have done a far better job than him

they even managed to grow through the GFC in 2008

Didn't Pinochet kill communists or was that another dicator?

you do realise the economy is more than just gdp alone though right