Bolsonaro's Brazil: Chicago Boy-style Neoliberalism

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2. To say nothing of neighboring Argentina.

There, the 1976-83 dictatorship wrecked the economy using free trade, financial deregulation, and union-busting (over half the 22,000 disappeared were union members).

It's not mentioned as often as Chile under Pinochet; but it was much worse both in terms of human rights atrocities and the socio-economic disaster they left behind.

Fast forward 40 years, and Argentina's aw-shucks right-wing president, Macri (a personal friend of Cheeto's), has just put them through the very same financial bubble/bad debt/collapse cycle as we speak.

History, it's said, tends to repeat itself. First as tragedy, then as farce.