Highly recommended 
The author was writing for the Financial Times in Santiago under the Pinochet regime
This reminds me of another South American politician and that, when you post videos of his appearances on television, his supporters will tell you that's not what he *really* said
Oh hey look. Guess which foreign government was the first to befriend the Chilean junta after the coup
Chile's junta didn't like that everyone around the world kept describing them accurately, so they hired a slick PR outfit in Washington DC
First-hand accounts of the "helicopter rides," you know, the ones from those really funny and edgy memes, ha ha ha
(The limping old man described in that passage was an elected official in a legal government, not some guerrilla, and in many ways Chile's Communist Party in the early 70s was more moderate than even President Allende's Socialist Party)
Cronyism, spiraling debt and consumption, low wages and unemployment, and environmental degradation: a few of the reasons "shock therapy" under Pinochet didn't work out quite as advertised (again, written by the Financial Times correspondent):
