Chile - reading... The Chicago boys and the Chilean earthquake - Chile Earthquake. The ghost of Milton Friedman, writes Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal, “was surely hovering protectively over Chile in the early morning hours of Saturday.”
Thanks largely to him, the country has endured a tragedy that elsewhere would have been an apocalypse. Stephens’ logic is simple. After the U.S. The Social Earthquake in Chile. Posted on New America Media Chile is experiencing a social earthquake in the aftermath of the 8.8 magnitude quake that struck the country on February 27.
“The fault lines of the Chilean Economic Miracle have been exposed,” says Elias Padilla, an anthropology professor at the Academic University of Christian Humanism in Santiago. “The free market, neo-liberal economic model that Chile has followed since the Pinochet dictatorship has feet of mud.”
Chile rising - Fault Lines.