Forty years after the coup that toppled Salvador Allende and brought the dictator Augusto Pinochet to power, Chile remains a country ill at ease with itself.
Life is very good by Latin American standards. The roads are spiffy and shopping centers are shiny, things work and poverty is greatly reduced.
But people question the neo-liberal economic model that brought all that about and was instituted by Pinochet, with help from American economists.
And there is a widespread clamor to know more about the many thousands of people who went missing as Pinochet waged a war on anything that smacked of dissent....
The general got the economy moving — at the cost of privatizing education, health care and pensions, and opening up the economy to massive foreign investment.
The Raw Story
Agence France-Presse
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