@🅱oomer Ted Cruz
"Pinochet made huge economic reforms that led the way to it's more Capitalist economy that is doing well now"
Unless you want to contribute all economic growth after his regime to Pinochet, this is false. Wages decreased by an average of 8-9% under his regime. Throughout the overwhelming majority of his rule, **wages were significantly lower in Chile than the Latin American average.** Some 44-45% of Chilean households were in poverty near the end of the Pinochet regime.
The GDP growth he is often praised began at the very end of his rule and the vast majority of it occurred when he was out of this picture. Overall, there was very little GDP growth in Chile from 1975 until the mid 1980s. This is due to the fact that Pinochet's economic policies led to not one, but two economic recessions under his rule.
Show me any graph of Chile today that you feel proves Pinochet was a good leader, and I will direct you to the time period and years on that graph, and ask you when they occurred. The majority of Pinochet's rule featured economic struggle, with only a small period being genuine economic growth.
