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By Orlando Letelier
“The economic plan now being carried out in Chile realizes an historic aspiration of a group of Chilean economists, most of them trained at Chicago University by Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger. Deeply involved in the preparation of the coup, the ‘Chicago boys’, as they are known in Chile, convinced the generals that they were prepared to supplement the brutality, which the military possessed, with the intellectual assets it lacked. The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has disclosed that ‘CIA collaborators’, helped plan the economic measures that Chile’s junta enacted immediately after seizing power.”
