Friedman Pinochet. The junta to which friedman refers was a military government that came to power in a 1973 coup d état which came to an end in 1990 after a democratic 1988 plebiscite removed augusto pinochet from the presidency. President during our visit with you on friday march 21 to discuss the.
Friedman went to chile like he did other authoritarian countries like china and gave speeches on freedom. According to stephens the radical free market policies prescribed to chilean dictator augusto pinochet by milton friedman and his infamous chicago boys are the reason chile is a prosperous. More exactly chile was a showcase of de regulation gone berserk.
Pinochet used the military he drove tanks down the main thoroughfare and fired 24 missiles into the federal building in his coup to gain power.
Pinochet conspired with nixon kissinger and our cia to overthrow the thriving socialist government of chile with a thriving middle class. Most notably she links him to augusto pinochet s brutal military dictatorship in chile in the 1970s writing that friedman acted as adviser to the chilean dictator in fact friedman never. Friedman was accused of supporting the military dictatorship in chile because of the relation of economists of the university of chicago to pinochet and a controversial seven day trip he took to chile during march 1975 less than two years after the coup that ended with the death of president salvador allende. Friedman himself couldn t decide whether to be amused or annoyed by the obloquies.
