No, we've felt this way for a long time. It's just that nobody listens.
From its beginning, the new military government implemented harsh measures against its perceived opponents.[8] Various reports and investigations claim that between 1,200 and 3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 people were interned and as many as 30,000 were tortured during the time Pinochet was in government.[9][10][11]
Under the influence of the free market-oriented neoliberal “Chicago Boys”, the military government implemented economic reforms, including currency stabilization, tariff cutting, opening Chile’s markets to global trade, restricting labor unions, privatizing social security, and the privatization of hundreds of state-controlled industries. These policies produced what has been referred to as the “Miracle of Chile,” but critics state that the government policies dramatically increased economic inequality.[12] Chile was, for most of the 1990s, the best-performing economy in Latin America, though academics continue to dispute the legacy of Pinochet’s reforms.[13]
Pinochet’s 17-year rule was given a legal framework through a controversial 1980 plebiscite, which approved a new Constitution -Wiki