re: Chile voted out Pinochet’s constitution 78%-21%

I think the US breaks up at that point.

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His "economic miracle" influenced many western countries including the U.S.

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It was the other way around. Pinochet’s economic miracle was engineered by the University of Chicago School of Economics led by Milton Friedman.

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I am guessing the 78% of Chileans doing what they want for their country to erase the years of a brutal and corrupt dictatorship aren't taking enough account what American Pinochet supporters think.

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This is not some new cycle we have to evaluate; they are starting down a path similar to that which was followed by Chavez/Madura, Allende, and Castro. It’s a path to capital flight and abject penury.

People are reading quite a lot into this (i.e. it is Marxists) when a constitutional referendum was always likely because of the way the 1980 constitution was ratified. Not only that, the Pinochet regime violated the constitution it drafted numerous times, undermining the entire exercise other than to ensure that Pinochet remained in power. Otherwise the document itself is quite further left than what one would expect for a "right-wing" government, as it codifies the right to education until I believe people are 21, the right to health protection, the right to live in a clean environment, and the right to social security.

My expectation is that things like Article 19-1, which explicitly protects the rights of the unborn, which lead to the most restrictive policies toward abortion in the entire world, will be amended. From the demographic perspective, that restrictive abortion policy did not counter the downward trend of Chile's TFR; my expectation is that the country's elite might try to offer direct payments of some type to try to increase the birth rate. I do not think the neoliberal regime developed in the 90's (or rather continued and built upon by Aylwin) will be dismantled, as the growth from the end of Pinochet's reign to now has been twice the growth that Chile saw from 73-90. I expect some presidential authority will be stripped and given to legislative bodies, as well as possibly some written protections for the Mapauche.

Only saving grace is Chile doesn't have oil for some enterprising populist to utilize for free lunches.

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was the other way around. Pinochet’s economic miracle was engineered by the University of Chicago School of Economics led by Milton Friedman

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But Pinochet and Chile actually implemented his policies in real practice. LINK

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The first country in the world to make that momentous break with the past—away from socialism and extreme state capitalism toward more market-oriented structures and policies—was not Deng Xiaoping’s China or Margaret Thatcher’s Britain in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan’s United States in 1981, or any other country in Latin America or elsewhere. It was Pinochet’s Chile in 1975.

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Just last week, the socialist party won in Bolivia in an election with 88% turnout

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RIP

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RIP

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you could just say they’re fading into Bolivian

They want to be more like Venezuela?



Or maybe the good old USSR?



If Russians of the Soviet era saw long line they would join it not knowing what was at the other end because whatever it was, it was something they needed.