pinochet took advice from milton friedman in setting up his economy

and it went to shit

He was a killer and an extremist yeah

no his *economy* went to shit

But economically

Pinochet

obviously his social programs were spastic too

He did things right

he did things by the textbook, and the textbook ruined his economy

He brought Chile from a democratic country to a military dictatoship for 20 years

Dude

20 fucking years

You are throwing left wing textbook knowledge at me

no im not

LMAO

I've been yo Chile

just look at the data

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