"The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is a necessary book to understand how we become the country we are. Klein is a Canadian journalist with a progressive, whose research has earned him many awards and respect for the world's most influential intellectuals.
If you can summarize, the 2007 book argues that governments and companies use natural disasters like the Asian tsunami, and other man-made, as the war in Iraq, the attacks of September 11, 2001 and especially dictatorships in Latin America to adopt policies friendly to businesses and transform societies from the root. All this can be called disaster capitalism.
In this sense, Naomi Klein ascribes to Milton Friedman, the guru of the famous Chicago school of economics-in the cold war, the invention of the shock doctrine.
The shock has two crucial moments: Disaster and reconstruction. About the disaster can be natural or manmade. The reconstruction is where the capitalist gear and the subjugation of the masses.
shock, basically, is the technique of subjugation of the masses or "receteo" of society. Governments today need the shock, hence the communion capitalism and militarism. Current evidence found in Iraq. Before it was Russia and China. However
the first country in the world where applied "schock doctrine," according to declassified CIA documents, was in Chile post 1973.
In our country, the conditions were for the experiment. We laboratory mice.
all started in the early 60's, when the CIA tipped off by the pace of development in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay and Chile) and its tendency to the left, decided to interfere. This will materialize an agreement between the U. U. of Chicago and Catholic, young Chileans to study economics under the doctrine of Friedman, which basically favored the free market at its most extreme, in the end, the market regulates everything.
Once the first people arrived in Chicago, known as the "Chicago Boys", set up their "church" in the U. Catholic.
With the advent of Allende to power, was blatant U.S. intervention. The time for the "Chicago Boys" came with Pinochet. The implementation of free-market experiments and its wave of privatizations in the beginning jaqueó the economy. Increased unemployment. Increased hunger. However, the repression of the era, with electroshock in between, kept people crushed.
At a time when Pinochet questioned the handling of the "Chicago Boys", but these brought him to his charismatic guru. Pinochet was pleased with Friedman, and privatization continued to delight the speculators, ultimately, the new rich of the country, Piñera, one of them-and unfortunately for the people. The welfare state of the 60 ultimately went to archeology. Unfortunately
part of the history of Chile, is in the archives of the CIA.
Currently in Chile, 7 communes or a little more live in Norway or other developed country, and the rest of Chile transpires. According to Friedman, this is the "Chilean miracle."
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