Post by account_disabled on Mar 15, 2024 22:26:49 GMT -5
Thus began the evocative song with which Pablo Milanés recalled what happened in the streets of Santiago de Chile that rainy Tuesday of September 11, 1973. In the presidential palace of “La Moneda” surrounded by the army and bombed by the air force, the constitutional president of Chile, Salvador Allende, took his life. With his iconic death preceded by his last words broadcast on the radio, a process of political transformation that had astonished the world for three eventful years concluded and a long, bloody and shadowy military dictatorship was inaugurated that would last until 1989. Half a century has passed since the death of Allende, but His figure and the experience of the Popular Unity government are still very much alive in the memory of Chilean society and continue to attract unusual international interest. as proven by the multitude of essays and biographies that appeared on the occasion of the anniversary, both about Allende himself and about the political experience he led. The first time I heard seriously about what came to be known as “the Chilean experience” I was a young student in the Faculty of Economics where, at that time, a kind of academic oligopoly prevailed between a Keynesianism in decline - questioned by the impact of the oil crises - and a confused anti-capitalism with a statist vocation that sought to be inspired by the classic texts of Marxism.
And then they appeared Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys who, with their refreshing challenge to Keynesian orthodoxy, were demonstrating the benefits of the market in that gigantic social experiment that was being developed in Pinochet's Chile. I never liked them much, not then, nor now. They didn't convince me either. They put their elegant theories into practice in a gigantic prison that they had transformed into a laboratory. But from all that some questions arose BYB Directory that captivated my interest in the “Chilean experience”, an interest that has continued to this day. One of those questions was the famous nationalization of the copper mines approved unanimously by the Chilean congress in July 1971. The Popular Unity Government nationalized the mines owned by American companies without paying them a single dollar in compensation because, previously, it had deducted what it described as “excessive profits or benefits” obtained by mining companies during previous years.
In my work I concluded that, in addition to its questionable legal basis, this constituted a serious strategic error and, in fact, events Garcés highlights thecaso Allende's leadership within the coalition and even in his own party, the Socialist Party, led by its most radical wing headed by Senator Carlos Altamirano. In his iconic speech in May 1971 before the plenary session of the national Congress, President Allende himself enthroned, in that solemn and majestic tone of someone who knows that he is starring in history, what he called “the Chilean path to socialism”, a suggestive path that sought to achieve the same goals through democratic procedures and maintaining political pluralism, which differentiated the Chilean process from any historical precedent to date. In that formula was condensed the extraordinary power of attraction that the “Chilean experience” exerted on the European left for so long. But The Chilean path to socialism required a broad political and social majority of which, Not only was the Popular Unity always lacking, but what is even more paradoxical, the leaders, especially of the Socialist Party and other minor formations, strove tirelessly to hinder any approach to Christian Democracy and in particular to its most progressive wing that advocated a transformation program similar to that of the government coalition.
And then they appeared Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys who, with their refreshing challenge to Keynesian orthodoxy, were demonstrating the benefits of the market in that gigantic social experiment that was being developed in Pinochet's Chile. I never liked them much, not then, nor now. They didn't convince me either. They put their elegant theories into practice in a gigantic prison that they had transformed into a laboratory. But from all that some questions arose BYB Directory that captivated my interest in the “Chilean experience”, an interest that has continued to this day. One of those questions was the famous nationalization of the copper mines approved unanimously by the Chilean congress in July 1971. The Popular Unity Government nationalized the mines owned by American companies without paying them a single dollar in compensation because, previously, it had deducted what it described as “excessive profits or benefits” obtained by mining companies during previous years.
In my work I concluded that, in addition to its questionable legal basis, this constituted a serious strategic error and, in fact, events Garcés highlights thecaso Allende's leadership within the coalition and even in his own party, the Socialist Party, led by its most radical wing headed by Senator Carlos Altamirano. In his iconic speech in May 1971 before the plenary session of the national Congress, President Allende himself enthroned, in that solemn and majestic tone of someone who knows that he is starring in history, what he called “the Chilean path to socialism”, a suggestive path that sought to achieve the same goals through democratic procedures and maintaining political pluralism, which differentiated the Chilean process from any historical precedent to date. In that formula was condensed the extraordinary power of attraction that the “Chilean experience” exerted on the European left for so long. But The Chilean path to socialism required a broad political and social majority of which, Not only was the Popular Unity always lacking, but what is even more paradoxical, the leaders, especially of the Socialist Party and other minor formations, strove tirelessly to hinder any approach to Christian Democracy and in particular to its most progressive wing that advocated a transformation program similar to that of the government coalition.