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turn Chile into a laboratory for neoliberalism: a series of measures that privatized the economy, imposed austerity on an unwilling populace, and trusted an unbridled free market to magically solve all the ills of society. The experiments in Chile were soon exported to other countries like Ronald Reagan’s United States (though Margaret Thatcher came first).
✏️ In what feels to me an incredibly despicable action and personalized punishment, they take a country that was successfully experimenting with socialism and turned it into a testing ground for neoliberalism and rampant capitalism
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