Tell me /pol/, was Pinochet based?
Economically, yes.
Human rights wise...not so much.
apparently he liked giving commies free helicopter rides
>>76144441
>commies
>"human"
>tfw Venezuelan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhrYY3ocQ5o
>>76144441
>Economically, yes.
He's a good example of how the free market will create a bubble of prosperity... up until it fails, and fails hard.
>>76144504
>>76144553
look at this suave motherfucker
>>76144563
chile is doing good nowadays. their government has been continuing his policies apparently
>>76144563
Sometimes I think tossing you people out of helicopters wasn't such a bad idea after all.
>>76144345
He economically saved Chile, but didn't quit when he had to, also killed too much people, including my mom's uncle and almost killed my grandfather at the national stadium
>>76144921
sorry for party rocking
>>76144760
>>76144998
:^)
>>76144921
thanks for responding chilebro, i appreciate your input. whats your opinion of him cosndiering the circumstances? and, whats the general opinion of him throughout the country?
>>76144345
No, he basically needed the Blue Fairy to bail his ass out for him. And Geppetto is a cuck.
>>76145210
blue fairy? geppetto?
>>76144345
No, another shitty dictator from Latin America. Nothing new.
>>76144563
>chile is doing good nowadays. their government has been continuing his policies apparently
Perhaps they learned something from the crisis of 1982.
>>76144760
heh...
*teleports behind helicopter*
looks like this free market...
*claps hands over rotor blades, stopping them*
...just spun out of control!
*helicopter flyes into space and explodes*
heh... easy...
*swirls cape*
>>76144345
No just basic.
>>76145368
>Perhaps they learned something from the crisis of 1982.
can you go deeper into this?
>>76145161
I think he was right at the time, the country was on the verge of collapsing under comunist rule, and Allende sleeping with the soviets only meant more trouble for our little country (see cuba). he should have held elections after the coup.
Also it is generally hated here, even mentioning him in a favorable hint means you are the worst fucking person in history, and that difficults debates. I'm more interested in the historical side of things, so i tend to think about all the ordeal in a more neutral way
the enemy of my enemy is my friend
>>76145555
even within the context of your familial situation? do you mind telling why your mothers relative was killed?
>>76145623
who is your enemy?
>>76145694
Communism, Socialism, you know, that kinda shit that made me and everyone in the fa.m leave Venezuela because they actually made it unbearably shitty
>>76145806
my friends mother is venezuelan. she left when chavez came into power.
>>76145694
My mom's uncle was shot from an helicopter like two days after the coup while he was running from them in a field, he was a syndical leader from a land moving truckers group; my grandfather was almost killed because he was a syndical acountant or something like that, but got released for having a minor rank in the syndical stuff.
I think about all this stuff as a very important thing that changed the history of my country forever, imagine my case thousands of time, that happening is a big deal, a thing that stays imprinted in the minds of generations to come
He was pretty good
>>76145494
Basically, to "fix" Chile's economy Pinochet imported some economists from Chicago who implemented a series of neoliberal economic policies heavily dependent on free trade. This obviously attracted a lot of foreign investment and greatly increased the value of the Chilean peso. However this growth was unsustainable, similar to the growth policies enacted by Hjalmar Schacht to bolster the Nazi Reichsmark and the runaway growth of the Icelandic kroner in the recent Icelandic banking crisis. Basically speculation vastly inflated the value of Chile's currency, and when the currency began to flag they attempted to fix the exchange rate of the currency at its then-high value, which only accelerated its devaluation and collapse. The bubble popped in 1982, leading to widespread unemployment and poverty. It's taken many years for Chile to recover from that collapse.
Since then their economists probably realized that going whole hog on free trade is a bad idea, though they have pursued free trade agreements with countries like Mexico, and it's working out since it's being conducted on a much smaller scale and the trade is relatively equitable, since they are not relying on imported wealth from extremely wealthy countries, nor having their wealth drained by trade with a poorer country.
Between 1973-1990, the number of Chileans living in poverty doubled. After the junta fell out of power, the economy has slowly recovered. I doubt Pinochet's reforms were completely bad, but the aftermath of his neoliberal policies are definitely sobering arguments against total free trade and irresponsible growth rates
>>76146453
awesome reply, thanks bro. i am extremely inclined to agree with your assertions. where can i read up on this more?
>>76144441
Commies don't deserve to be treated with something they would not give to others.
>>76144441
No, he was perfect with human rights issues too
>>76146643
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2006/09/how-chile-successfully-transformed-its-economy
http://countrystudies.us/chile/67.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_1982
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Chile
>>76144441
just came home from a double shift and I'm mad as hell and decided to go reply to the first stupid comment i see on /pol/.
You stupid faggot, go slurp some more la la commie friendship is magic bullshit out marxist assholes.
You may be a decent person but showing sympathy to commies is borderline retarded as they wouldn't do the same to you.
I bet you thought the North Vietnamese were also victims don't you?
Neck yourself
>pic related, it's your downs loony face reacting to this comment and saying outloud, "psshhh he doesn- he's full of sh- he's the retard!"
>>76146453
Artifficially creating favorable speculation over currency then locking the exchange rate is not what you would call free market, it might work on the short term to recover from the Allende's mess but not in the long run since it's no different from socialism control over economy.
Don't get me wrong, he did great things and saved Chile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op-wy4gM_wM
