Gabriel Boric: A sign of The Times or a Seismic Shift In Global Politics?
The election of a young left wing politician in Chile might be the beginnings of something special, globally.
The 11th of September is a date forever etched on the minds of the Chilean people.
Long before it meant something to three hundred million Americans, it meant quite a bit to the citizens of this great South American country.
Why?
This was the very day in 1973 that the CIA backed Augusto Pinochet in launching a coup with overthrew the democratically elected Salvador Allende. This single action proved what most of us have always thought about the United States of America: The world’s greatest sponsor of state terrorism and coups.
Augusto Pinochet, in his time as dictator, proved to be every bit as brutal, autocratic and murderous as tens of thousands of people were interned and countless others were never seen again.
What made his regime of such strategic importance to America was his implementation of the laissez-faire ideas of the Chicago school. The success of trickle-down economics in a right wing dictatorship was what gave the likes of Friedman and Hayek the boldness to proclaim the efficacy of Neoliberalism and millions around the world have been paying the price, ever since.