Pinochet’s finance minister admits austerity required political coercion

Evidence

And if you ask me if you justify the human rights violations? No, I find them awful. But it seems to me that it would not have been possible to make the change that was made in Chile without an authoritarian regime. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 357

Categorization

• APHORISMS: This is the crux: the regime’s own architect admits the incompatibility of democracy and the austerity program — the single strongest support for the chapter’s thesis.