The Shock Doctrine Page #4

in a real world economic crisis.

He called for "Shock treatment"

He said that he was like a doctor

that was going to help a country that was suffering an epidemic.

And he was simply prescribing the medicine.

Friedman wrote that General Pinochet was simpatheticly attracted

to the idea of the shock treatment.

but was clearly distressed at the temporary unemployment it might cause.

It rapidly became clear that Friedman's economic policies

benefited the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

It was calculated that a family triying to live on the average wage

had to spend 74% of its income on bread.

Items such as bus fares or milk became luxuries.

Pinochet got rid of free milk in school

a move that ? controversial policy of the young education ministry in Britain

who would later become his friend.

In order to enforce these economic policies

there had to be an enemy to fear.

tampoco creo que

se haya ...

triunfado totalmente

sobre el marxismo.

el marxismo es como un fantasma.

cuesta mucho tomarlo ...

mejor dicho,

no se puede tomar.

Friedman and Harberger argued that free market economies

went hand in hand with freedom and democracy.

But in Chile

where their ideas were implemented whithin the context of a military dictatorship

the opposite was true.

Many in latinamerica saw a direct connection

between the economic shoks that empobrished millions of people

and the epidemic of torture inflicted on those who believed in a different kind of society.

One of those was Orlando Letelier.

Letelier had been Allende's ambassador on Washington.

He spent a year on one of Pinochet's prisons.

Before being exiled back to America.

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In 1976, Letelier wrote:

"The economic plan has had to be enforced

and in the Chilean context, that could only be done by the killing of thousands,

the stablishment of concentration camps all over the country

and the jailing of more than 100.000 persons in 3 years."

Less than a month later, Letelier was killed by a car bomb.

A powerful bomb, today tore trhough a car

that was driving along. Washington's usually quiet embassy road

The chilean was Orlando Letelier

who also had been foreign minister in the last months

of the late Salvador Allende's marxist regime

Michael Townley, a member of Pinochet's secret police

was behind the bombing.

He'd entered the US on a false passport with the knowledge of the CIA.

Michael buenas noches, la opinion del poder

judicial chileno hay confianza en el?

Mira yo confio plenamente

en la justicia chilena ...

como patriota, y luchador antimarxista

y juntista por sobre todas las cosas.

Despite his confidence, Townley was extradited to the US

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