Chile’s coup and Allende’s death sobered the UN’s Group of Experts on multinational corporations.

Evidence

14. During the course of these hearings, ousted Chilean president Salvador Allende was killed. Amid concerns about the role of ITT in the activities leading up to the military coup preceding Allende’s death, the events in Chile had a sobering effect on the Group and its staff (Mousouris 2003). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1830

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader story of ITT’s role in destabilizing Allende and how US corporate power shaped the Global South’s push for economic regulation. — connects to: The Allende overthrow made multinational regulation intellectually respectable for development economists. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1779