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| | The Chilean Heroes of Social Security Privatizers - Center for American Progress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | To fully understand the Chilean experience and appreciate the origins of the social re-engineering being championed by the right-wing today, one must look further back than 1981 to another September 11 –; September 11, 1973, the day on which the brutal, repressive, anti-democratic Pinochet regime sprang to life. |
 | | As the Chilean government recently recognized for the first time, the tyranny of Pinochet and his regime extended well beyond political killings and into a systematic reliance on torture. |
 | | Later, the Pinochet regime was exactly the kind of regime embraced by the Reagan administration in its application of the so-called Kirkpatrick Doctrine that drew a distinction between communist totalitarian regimes and pro-Western, anti-communist authoritarian regimes, leading, in the case of Chile, to an abandonment of a number of Carter administration-era sanctions against the regime. |
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