The Shock Doctrine Page #3

right after Allende was elected.

Despite the efforts of the CIA, Allende sworn in as president.

Richard Nixon ordered the CIA director to make the economy sream.

El Sr. Nixon es presidente de los EE.UU.

y yo soy Presidente de Chile.

yo no tendr un termino despectivo

contra el Sr. Nixon ...

mientras el Sr. Nixon respete

al Presidente de Chile.

Preparations began for the military coup.

Chilean "Chicago boys" started to work on

an 500 pages economic blueprint called "The brick".

With the US funding, everyting was done

to destabilize the economy.

Truck drivers went on strike,

bringing factories and shops to a standstill.

There was a failed coup atempt in june 29 of 1973.

And then on september the 11, with Pinochet General leading the army.

Assault began on the presidential palace.

El Shock de la guerra

Chile had enjoyed 41 years of uninterupted peaceful demoracy rule

that now was violently overthrown.

Pinochet and his supporters described the coup as a war.

It was certainly designed to look like one.

It was a Chilean precursor of the "Shock and awe"

Salvador Allende

Las fuerzas armadas y de orden slo

bajo la inspiracin patritica ...

de sacar al pas del caos ...

que en forma aguda lo estaba precipitando

el gobierno marxista de Salvador Allende.

"Chicago boys" delivered their economic blueprint "The brick" to Pinochet.

In the days that followed

more than 13.000 oponent were arrested and imprisoned.

Thousands of prisoners were held in the National Stadium. Many were tortured.

Chile became notorious around the world.

- Cuntas personas?

- Diez mil

LA DOCTRINA DEL SHOCK

At the begining of november, 5.000 prisoners were released.

The 900 they left behind, were transfered to other detention centers.

Less than a mont later FIFA allowed Chile

to play a World Coup cualifying in the very same stadium.

Their oponents, the Soviet Union, refused to play there

then, Chile were allowed to score into an open goal

and went trhrough to the 1974 World Coup finals.

El Shock econmico

With the population in shock

Pinochet imposed the policies recomended by the "Chicago boys".

removal of price controls, the sell of statal companies

the removal of import barriers and cuts to the government expenditure.

Friedman later openly acknowledge the importance of the Chilean experiments.

It was the first case in which you had a movement towards comunism

which was replaced by a movement towards free market.

It didn't work. A year later, inflation was 375% per year.

The highest in the world.

So in march 1975, Arnold Harbenger and Milton Friedman flew into Santiago.

He used a phrase that had never before been used

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