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Foreign involvement was extensive

Hello Mauricio!

The foreign involvement was extensive and deliberate. The torturers were trained by the CIA in the same techniques that were later used in Irak and Guantanamo. The economists were trained in Chicago and were known as the "Chicago Boys". The former paved the way for the latter to implement economic policies which would ensure the South Cone subordination to the developed countries. Both implemented shock therapies, some in a more literal way, but the economic shock therapy was extremely more harmful in the long term.

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