Saw Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys mentioned. Hopefully Pinochet will get some credit if not most. I wouldn’t mind spending winters there in Valparaiso if it’s stable. Someone named Pinera ran the country recently. His harvard brother changed their retirement system and I was hoping he’s be here to do the same.
Last there’s a big chunk of land spread amongst 3 countries down there just ripe for development(immigration). Could be our last refuge but then we’d need an army.
Sebastián Piñera is the current President of Chile. I have friends and distant relatives there who rightly blame him for the growing crime and anarchy in the country. His problem is that he's deadly afraid of being labeled "fascist" and "violating human rights". As a consequence, he refuses to seriously combat the growing epidemic of crime and terrorism. Instead he dodges the issue with bloviating platitudes about a "grand national accord".
As in the USA, these thugs and hooligans have a political constituency that bends over backwards to justify their behavior.
Part of his cowardice is blowback from decades of propaganda and lies about the military government of 1973-1990. In fact dozens of Chile's military heroes from this period have been imprisoned under contrived charges of "crimes against humanity" (delitos de lesa humana). This makes a poor example for anyone who's willing to take firm measures to restore order.