[lhenault]

I don't know, another CIA backed coup, as some considers South American countries are better ruled by people like Pinochet ?

[collegecamp293]

Chile ranks first in Latin America — and 44th among 189 countries — in the United Nations Human Development Index. "The U.N. ranking counts not only economic growth, but also health and education standards."

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/an...

[lawtalkinghuman]

"In Villa Grimaldi detainees would be electrocuted, water boarded, had their heads forced into buckets of urine and excrement, suffocated with bags, hanged by their feet or hands and beaten. Many women were raped and for some detainees, punishment was death."

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/09/life-under-pi...

[zorked]

Chile hasn't been ruled by Pinochet since 1990, when it scored a 0.7 in the Human Development Index, about the same score as Bolivia today.

[littlestymaar]

Comming next: “let's discuss how the Nazi were in fact a good thing because their politics successfully saved the German economy”.

[socialdemocrat]

Thanks to social democrats who took over after Pinochet. So whatever Chile is today, a lot of it is thanks to democratic socialism. Still Chile has not gotten rid entirely of its troubled Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys legacy.