Pinochet biography book
A great book that gives a fair account of Pinochet's life....
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Pinochet was not an economic genius.
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However, he turned out to be clever enough to hire an ambitious Friedmanite liberal economic team, which turned Chile into an "economic miracle" that, like it or not, was envied across Latin America. And it was, ultimately, Pinochet who presided over that miracle.
He said many times - though no one believed him - that everything that was done under his rule was done for the sake of the Chilean people. The Chilean dictatorship kept their word. The pension fund has evolved into a reliable source of support for the country's elderly; the effort to wipe out illiteracy was much more successful than Allende's.
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean military officer and politician who dominated Chilean politics as a military dictator from toBeginning in 1974, the military government began to implement free-market economic policies, including the elimination of long-standing widespread price controls. By the mid-1970s, the dictatorship switched from destroying the old order to constructing its version of a new Chile.
The junta not only overturned decades of democratic g