How Misguided Financial Policy Strengthens the Right-Wing (tags)
Capitalism has shown how democratic processes can be easily evaded. The Chicago boys carried out their radical reform program that was known as shock therapy. This included dismantling social state structures, opening the market to foreign investors and shattering unions
Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism - A Symbiotic Pair (tags)
Rightwing populist parties mix the conventional rightwing authoritarian political style with neoliberal economic ideas emphasizing the free unregulated market and the sleek but strong state. For Hayek, unions allegedly threaten democracy and force a just redistribution policy.
The Totalitarianism of the Market (tags)
Neoliberalism demands reeducation for its implementation like command socialism. The neoliberal view of the person is exemplified by the figure of the Homo Oeconomicus and is the antipole of the socialist person. All persons are entrepreneurs of themseves.
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The humanity of resistance can’t be erased by a Pinochet or a Friedman (tags)
The Pinochet coup was the first application of “shock therapy.” The intellectual author of shock therapy, Milton Friedman, needed a dictator and unlimited violence to implement his ideas.
FERNANDO LUGO, PINOCHET Y NORIEGA (tags)
EL CURA FERNANDO LUGO, PINOCHET Y NORIEGA
Honduras Newspaper Impressed that Daughter of Pinochet Backs Coup (tags)
"No, it's not parody. Rather, it's instructive of the state of mind of the coup defenders. (You can see it in repeated online comments on Twitter and elsewhere attacking Organization of American States chairman Jose Miguel Insulza because he was part of the elected Allende government before Allende was assassinated by Pinochet's forces.) They see the Pinochet coup of 36 years ago as a heroic act, and long for the bad old days when they could simply stamp out democratic will by rounding all dissenters into a stadium and assassinating more than 3,000 in a single week, which is what happened after September 11, 1973 in Santiago de Chile. It is another proof positive that they are trying to start that ball rolling all over again throughout the hemisphere. And it demonstrates exactly why not a single government in América or in the entire world recognizes their illegitimate regime."
Socios Latinos de John McCain (tags)
Al mismo tiempo en que el obispo Fernando Lugo visitaba en Washington a George W. Bush, probablemente para agradecer el respaldo de James Cason, USAID, el NED y la IAF a su candidatura, la noticia de un encuentro entre Pinochet y McCain en 1985 conmocionó a América Latina.
John McCain, candidato del pasado Terrorista (tags)
La entrevista de McCain con el dictador Pinochet, hecha pública en simultáneo con la visita del obispo Fernando Lugo a su compañero de trabajo George W. Bush, han dejado en claro quién representa todo lo malo del pasado Terrorista del Imperio.
John Mc Cain, Pinochet y el Operador del Plan Cóndor (tags)
La visita del obispo Fernando Lugo a Washington para aparecer en la última foto de George W. Bush, coincidió con revelaciones que no sólo atañen al candidato presidencial John McCain, también a sus principales publicistas.
John Mc Cain, Conrado Pappalardo y el Obispo (tags)
El Obispo Fernando Lugo comparte con John Mc Cain sus vínculos con amistades del fallecido dictador chileno Orlando Letelier.
On the Anti-Democratic Character of Neoliberalism (tags)
Privatization, deregulation and cuts in social spending is the trinity of the free market, Naomi Klein explains. The consciou8s production of unemployment is anti-democratic. The conscious worsening of income- and assets distribution is anti-democratic.
Pinochet is dead! It is time to kill the system that spawned him! (tags)
The fact that the death of Pinochet on Sunday sparked off celebrations in Chile and around the world should surprise no one. He was a hated figure, a living symbol of the real face of the bourgeoisie. In "normal" times the capitalists prefer to govern through "democratic" parliamentary means, so long as their fundamental interests are guaranteed. But the capitalist system cannot always guarantee that its interests can be defended through parliamentary means. History is full of examples where the bourgeoisie has preferred to do away with the niceties of "democracy"... Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto... the list is endless.
Pinochet, chief of the mass murderers, dies (tags)
His death does not mark the end of Pinochetism. People are declaring themselves admirers of his work. Some more shamefully than others, they declare themselves his admirers, his followers, his heirs. They must pay for his entire legacy. The indictment for the crimes of Pinochet's dictatorship, which the human rights organizations have upheld valiantly and tirelessly for years, against his civilian and military collaborators, does not expire with the death of their leader.
Photos - Prepare the glasses… The death of Pinochet (tags)
Gen. Pinochet, who overthrew Chile's democratically elected president in a bloody coup and ruled this Andean nation for 17 years, died Sunday, Santiago, Chile, Dec. 10, 2006, dashing hopes of victims of his regime's abuses that he would be brought to justice. He was 91. Pinochet suffered a heart attack a week ago and underwent an angioplasty, and the brief announcement by the Santiago Military hospital said his condition worsened suddenly on Sunday. Dr. Juan Ignacio Vergara, spokesman for the medical team that had been treating him, said his family was with him when he died.
AJLPP-USA Statement on the Death of Chile's Dictator Augusto Pinochet (tags)
The Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace (AJLPP)-USA greets the death of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose brutal 17 year rule became a symbol of Latin American military repression with anger and regret.
Santiago, Chile, Dec 5 - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was rapidly recovering on Tuesday from a heart attack that his family and doctors said nearly killed him but that some of his critics said may have been exaggerated or even faked.
Dr. Michelle Bachelet Victor in Chilean Election.. (tags)
A look at Sundays Chilean Presidential election, its outcome and implication. The winner's personal history and the implications of Latin America's ongoing move to the Left.
With Gladys – We’ll win a thousand times (tags)
SANTIAGO, Chile — It was with a heavy heart that I arrived in Chile. Compañera Gladys Marin, president of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC), had died March 6 of a brain tumor. She was 63. Communist and workers party representatives came from around the world to pay tribute to this revolutionary heroine. My party — the Communist Party USA — asked me to represent it at Marin’s funeral.
Bush sr's CIA used Nazi torturers in South America (tags)
Vice President Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger , and George Bush sr ran American spy operations in 1976.
War Criminals Hide Behind Bushes (tags)
The Rockefeller Empire includes Exxon-Mobil, JPMorgan-Chase ,Citigroup, and also governments and dictatorships.
Ocean Graves for Leftists (tags)
Not only were leftists sent to Pacific ocean graves near Chile by Pinochet, but in neighboring Argentina, during the so-called dirty war, thousands of leftists were pushed alive out of airplanes over the Atlantic ocean and disappeared. Their mothers protested for years in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. These leftist victims wanted things like land reform, better wages and working conditions, health care and education for everyone and no child labor or starving children and they were treated this way by fascists and their cohorts in the CIA and US government. Disgusting!
David Rockefeller emperor, Kissinger Manager of 4th Reich (tags)
Kissinger served his whole life as the Rockefellers' politician, engineering the Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos war, the wars in East Timor and Angola, and installing the neo-nazi Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.
Chile Court OKs Kissinger Queries in 'Missing' Case (tags)
Chile's highest court on Monday gave the green light to a judge wanting to question former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about the 1973 killing in Chile of a U.S. journalist.
Judge arrests Pinochet. Clinton is next. Death Squads. Chile. Colombia. Drug War (tags)
Death Squad generalissimo Augusto Pinochet gets his just reward today for overthrowing an elected government in 1973, and murdering and torturing thousands in Chile. Clinton will get his just reward soon. For consciously funding and training Colombian Drug-War, Death Squads. We will NEVER forget. Murder is murder is murder. And complicity to murder. The Death Squads are just another arm of the powers-that-be worldwide. Here in the USA the powers-that-be fund and control their Republicrat one-party dictatorship. Wherever they are, Death Squads are usually just the armed lobbyists of a corporate-controlled government gone mad.