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MotherJonses » 29 Jul 2014 5:47 pm » wrote: So they never chose it? You yourself said they never voted for it. In fact everytime they vote they tend to elect socailists. Folks like Pinochet (whose salad you toss regularly) only get power when the elected leaders are gunned down and shock troops force the population into submission.

Pinochet didn't seize power to follow free market policies. He prevented a would-be Communist dictator from establishing a Cuba-like dictatorship.

As even the Chilean Left has finally admitted.

Voters in Latin America often vote for Socialists, but every country is so badly dominated by the alliance of the liberal-left with Big Governmentand Big Business that ordinary citizens become so cynical, they don't participate in the democratic process.

However, Honduras is about to follow China's Free Enterprise Zones that brought not only prosperity, but millions of citizens who moved into them.

Success is sometimes emulated.

Most often not, which is why most of Latin America is poverty stricken.