The Shock Doctrine
Part 2, Chapter 4: Cleaning the Slate
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Orlando Letelier, “Economic Freedom's Awful Toll,” The Nation, August 28, 1976
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Writing just three weeks before his assassination, Chilean economist and former US Ambassador Orlando Letelier critiques the economic policies imposed by Pinochet and the “Chicago Boys.”
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Writing just three weeks before his assassination, Chilean economist and former US Ambassador Orlando Letelier critiques the economic policies imposed by Pinochet and the “Chicago Boys.”
Argentina: Nunca Más, September 1984
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The full report by CONADEP, the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, examines at the disappearance of more than 9,000 Argentines between 1976 and 1983.
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The full report by CONADEP, the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, examines at the disappearance of more than 9,000 Argentines between 1976 and 1983.
Nunca Mais/Torture in Brazil, 1998
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An excerpt from Brazil’s truth commission report covering abuses from 1964-1979. Secretly written by the Archiodese of São Paulo, this is the only independent truth commission report released in South America.
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An excerpt from Brazil’s truth commission report covering abuses from 1964-1979. Secretly written by the Archiodese of São Paulo, this is the only independent truth commission report released in South America.
Spanish Court Rules Junta Committed Genocide, 1998 (in Spanish)
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A landmark ruling by a Spanish national court that the Argentine junta committed “the crime of genocide.”
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A landmark ruling by a Spanish national court that the Argentine junta committed “the crime of genocide.”
Baltasar Garzón on Genocide in Argentina, 1999 (in Spanish)
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Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón writes that the goal of the Argentine junta was “to establish a new order, like Hitler hoped to achieve in Germany, in which there was no room for certain types of people.”
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Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón writes that the goal of the Argentine junta was “to establish a new order, like Hitler hoped to achieve in Germany, in which there was no room for certain types of people.”
