{"id":43974,"date":"2019-02-22T19:44:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43974"},"modified":"2019-02-22T19:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:45:34","slug":"the-planning-of-a-coup-against-venezuela-chile-september-11-1973-the-ingredients-of-a-military-coup-the-imposition-of-a-neoliberal-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43974","title":{"rendered":"The Planning of a Coup against Venezuela: Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup. The Imposition of a Neoliberal Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Planning of a Coup against Venezuela: Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup. The Imposition of a Neoliberal Agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chicago Economics: Neoliberal Dress Rehearsal of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The main objective of the US-supported military coup in Chile was to impose the neoliberal economic agenda. \u201cRegime change\u201d was enforced through a covert military intelligence operation. Sweeping macro-economic reforms (including privatization, price liberalization and the freeze of wages) were implemented in early October 1973. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barely a few weeks after the military takeover, the military Junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet <\/strong>ordered a hike in the price of bread from 11 to 40 escudos, a hefty overnight increase of 264%. This \u201ceconomic shock treatment\u201d had been designed by a group of economists called the \u201cChicago Boys.\u201d \u201cWhile food prices had skyrocketed, wages had been frozen.  From one day to the next, an entire country had been precipitated into abysmal poverty.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1973, I was teaching economics at the Catholic University of Chile. I lived through two of the most brutal US sponsored military coups in Latin America\u2019s history: <\/em>Chile, September 11, 1973 and less than three years later, Argentina, March 24, 1976 under Operation Condor, which initiated Argentina\u2019s Dirty War: \u201cLa Guerra Sucia\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And today, the Trump administration is threatening to invade Venezuela with a view to \u201crestoring democracy\u201d, replacing an elected president (casually described by the Western media as a \u201cdictator\u201d) by a US proxy, speaker of Venezuela\u2019s National Assembly. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author\u2019s Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than forty-five <\/em>years ago on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military led by General Augusto Pinochet,<\/strong> crushed the democratically elected Unidad Popular government of Salvador Allende.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The objective was to replace a progressive, democratically elected government by a brutal military dictatorship.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The military coup was supported by the CIA. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger<\/strong> played a direct role in the military plot.   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Washington\u2019s ongoing initiative directed against Venezuela modelled on Chile?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Planning of a Coup against Venezuela: Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup. The Imposition of a Neoliberal Agenda Chicago Economics: Neoliberal Dress Rehearsal of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) The main objective of the US-supported military coup in Chile was to impose the neoliberal economic agenda. \u201cRegime change\u201d was enforced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2321,6110,526,6996,8104,1343,827,851],"class_list":["post-43974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-coup","tag-global-research","tag-military-coup","tag-neoliberalism","tag-prof-michel-chossudovsky","tag-regime-change","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43975,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43974\/revisions\/43975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}