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"So all the torture, repression, and extreme poverty during the Pinochet era was worth is huh?"

I never said that the oppression during Pinochet's term was right. What I said was that Chile's macro-economic policy was right. The economic growth under Chile was better than the inflation under Allende. Even critical things such as infancy mortality rate was a 4th under Pinochet as it was under Allende.

“And there HAS been socialist change since Pinochet. “

From WP:

The implemented economic model had three main objectives: economic liberalization, privatization of state owned companies, and stabilization of inflation. These market-oriented economic policies were continued and strengthened after Pinochet stepped down.[1] Successive governments have continued these policies for a quarter century.

Chile has the 8th highest economic freedom in the world – this shows that a lot of policies are still the same.



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