The Shock Doctrine Page #3

I refused to take them, because those universities

were being supported, in part, by public funds

and I did not want to appear in any way to provide any support

to the political system in Chile.

I'm not a representative of chile, amb not an adviser to Chile

I have no commitments with the government of Chile.

Friedman go home!

I'm very sorry for this incident

It could have been worse.

What I'm trying to do in "The sock doctrine"

is tell an alternative history

of how this savage stream of pure capitalism

capitalism unrestrained, came to dominate the world.

Chile wasn't the only country in South America

to adopt Chicago school policies.

and advised the goverment of Uruguay.

Then, on march 24 of 1976

a military coup overtrown the goverment of Isabel Pern

in Argentina.

A Juncture of three generals took over the country

led by general Videla.

Chicago Boys landed key economic posts in the military government.

They seized the oportunity for major economic and social engineering.

Whithin a year from the coup, wages lost 40% of their value

factories closed, poverty spiraled.

Just as in Chile, peple had to be terrorized

to accepting these economic policies.

Videla learned from Pinochet's experiences.

He adopted the tactic of disappearing people.

Streaking a balance between public and private horror.

disappearences were, often, carried out in broad daylight, but could always be denied.

articular la defensa

de la sociedad argentina.

Las reglas de esta guerra

no convencional.

que no buscamos,

ni provocamos, son distintas.

Many of the techniques used by the chilean an argentinian military

had been learned in the "US-run School of the Americas".

"Torture techniques taught

from rape, to deroben,

to torture with pointed objects,

breaking extremities, poking eyes out, branding

In Latin America there are various regimes whitch at the moment are abusing human rights

political murder, torture, deportation, imprisonment without a trial,

using the techniques that they may have learnt in this stablishment.

You may be right. If you can say that the skills that we've taught here

have been applied, I can't deny that.

The use of torture of a known enemy soldier

to gain some kind of military advantage.

I think is justifiable and smart.

But go beyond there, the use of torture techniques

purely to intimidate people, is completely wrong,

unethical and immoral.

But in Argentina and Chile

these techniques were not used just on soldiers or terrorists.

They were used on students and union members.

They were used on anyone who opposed the free market economic policies of the regime.

In 1978, the argentine Junta hosted the World Cup

The final was played in a stadium less than a mile away

from the biggest detention camp in the country

where thousands of prisoners were held into torture chambers.

Decir que con los goles, con el grito de gol ...

se tapaba la voz de los secuestrados y los gritos

de los secuestrados era una realidad.

Organizacin extraordinaria!

Miles y miles de banderas

Miles y miles de gargantas enronquecidas

25 millones de argentinos

que tienen un solo color ...

el celeste y blanco.

El ftbol ha hecho

el milagro del pas.

de este pas maravilloso ...

que nos siguen atacando aquellos que...

and Argentina took their terror regime one step further than Chile.

Among the disappared were hundreds of pregnant women.

Women who were allowed to give birth before being murdered.

De todas aquellas mujeres

que estaban embarazadas ...

les permitieron tener a sus hijos ...

para una vez que nacieran,

sacarselos.

y eso sucedi, con 500.

Yo soy uno de ellos, de esos 500.

Those children, many of whom were raised by families connected to the military

were a powerful reminder of the junta's project

to reengineer an entiere society.

While the Junta was still in power

a group of mothers and grandmothers of the disappeared

started to protest at the Plaza de Mayo.

They turn detectives, searching for the disappeared children.

After the Junta collapsed, some were found

and reunited with their families.

Ocasionally, they found remains.

but mostly they found nothing.

General Videla was found guilty of murder, kidnaping and torture.

usar una frase que no me pertenece,

le pertenece ya a todo el pueblo argentino ...

Seores jueces, "Nunca ms!"

He was sentenced to life in prison.

LA DOCTRINA DEL SHOCK

These first experiments in Latin America presented Friedman and his cohorts

with a serious ideological problem.

Friedman had promised that these policies

would not just make the elites richer,

but they would create the freest possible societies.

This was a war against tirany.

Capitalism and freedom went hand in hand.

But, here we see that in the 70's

the only countries putting this ideas into practice

were military dictatorships.

Nixon had fully suported imposing

these types of brutal free market policies in South American dictatorships.

But when it came to domestic economic policy in the US

where Nixon had to worry of being reelected.

it was a very, very different story.

La Escuela de Chicago

y el Mundo de habla inglesa

Friedman enjoyed a friendly relationship with Nixon.

Several of his Chicago school colleges and disciples were recruited to work for the government.

Donald Rumsfeld was one of them.

But in 1971, with the economy on a slump

Nixon turned his back on Friedman's ideas

and imposed the wage and prices control policy.

He put Rumsfeld in charge.

I have, for long, oposed to wages and prices control

I believe itinvolves a government intervention in freedom individuals, I think it's intolerable

The Keynesian policy was a success

and Nixon won a second term with a landslide majority.

It was a blow for Friedman.

Then in 1979, Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister of Great Britain.

Her intelectual guru was Friedman's old mentor

Friederich von Hayek.

And just over a year later, Ronald Reagan

was elected president of the US.

Both Britain and America were now ruled by unabashed Friedmanites.

Margaret Thatcher program, when she came in, had for planks

cut government spending, cut tax rates,

reduce government ownership and operation of industries or regulation of industry

and have a moderate stable monetary policy

and bring down inflation.

Within the first 3 years in office

unemployment doubled in posts of the economy, leading to a wave of strikes.

Thatchers personal aproval ratings swamped a 25%

There were riots in Britain's major cities

Even Margaret Thatcher's admirers had their doubts.

The economic performance trhough the Thatcher's government have been mixed

To those waiting with ? breath

to hear that favourite media catch phrase, "the U turn"

I have only one thing to say

You turn if you want to

"The Lady" is not for turn.

Friederich von Hayek urged Thatcher

to copy Pinochet's economic Shock therapy policies

Thatcher replied:

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