Re: Аугусто Пиночет - Герой Чили или Диктатор Чили?
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(друга позиция)In fact, all dictators have mythology that surrounds their figure and their regime. In the case of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet one of such myths was the idea that he unlike other Latin American rulers he was a model of "honesty."
Recent historical evidence provided by the National Security Archive in Washington DC however proved otherwise. In fact, the so called "honest" dictator had over 133 secret bank accounts and used 10 false names.
Source: National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 149
Washington, D.C., March 15, 2005 - Washington D.C.: The National Security Archive tonight posted key documents released on March 15 by the Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs showing conclusively that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet had used multiple aliases and false identification to maintain over 125 secret bank accounts at the Riggs National Bank and eight other financial institutions in the United States. In a review of banking records, Senate investigators found ten false names used by Pinochet to disguise his accounts, among them Daniel Lopez, A.P. Ugarte and Jose Pinochet. Records obtained from the Riggs Bank and Citibank showed that Pinochet presented falsified passports under the names of Augusto Ugarte and Jose Ramon Ugarte for account identification.
(еще позиция)Transformations under Pinochet by neo-liberal principles, free market policies brought two major depressions in one single decade; 1974-75, when GDP fell by 12% and finally in 1982-83, when it fell by 15%(H. Wiarda). Contrary to the high expectations about growth, the end of the radical free-market period was marred by a significant increase in both poverty and inequality. The proportion of families living below the line of destitution had risen from 12% to 15% between 1980 and 1990, and the percentage living below the poverty line, but above the line of destitution, had increased from 24% to 26%; meaning 40% of Chile’s population or 5.2million of a population of 13 million were poor. ( W. Bello)
http://www.gregpalast.com/tinker-bel...le-of-chile-2/The Miracle of Chile, too, was just another fairy tale. The claim that General Pinochet begat an economic powerhouse was one of those utterances whose truth rested entirely on its repetition.
Chile could boast some economic success. But that was the work of Salvador Allende - who saved his nation, miraculously, a decade after his death.
In 1973, the year General Pinochet brutally seized the government, Chile's unemployment rate was 4.3%. In 1983, after ten years of free-market modernization, unemployment reached 22%. Real wages declined by 40% under military rule.
In 1970, 20% of Chile's population lived in poverty. By 1990, the year "President" Pinochet left office, the number of destitute had doubled to 40%. Quite a miracle.
Pinochet did not destroy Chile's economy all alone. It took nine years of hard work by the most brilliant minds in world academia, a gaggle of Milton Friedman's trainees, the Chicago Boys. Under the spell of their theories, the General abolished the minimum wage, outlawed trade union bargaining rights, privatized the pension system, abolished all taxes on wealth and on business profits, slashed public employment, privatized 212 state industries and 66 banks and ran a fiscal surplus.
Freed of the dead hand of bureaucracy, taxes and union rules, the country took a giant leap forward ... into bankruptcy and depression. After nine years of economics Chicago style, Chile's industry keeled over and died. In 1982 and 1983, GDP dropped 19%. The free-market experiment was kaput, the test tubes shattered. Blood and glass littered the laboratory floor. Yet, with remarkable chutzpah, the mad scientists of Chicago declared success. In the US, President Ronald Reagan's State Department issued a report concluding, "Chile is a casebook study in sound economic management." Milton Friedman himself coined the phrase, "The Miracle of Chile." Friedman's sidekick, economist Art Laffer, preened that Pinochet's Chile was, "a showcase of what supply-side economics can do."
It certainly was. More exactly, Chile was a showcase of de-regulation gone berserk.
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