US regional hegemony drove Washington to sabotage Allende’s Chilean government
Evidence
The US government, guided by the Monroe Doctrine, and alarmed both by Chile’s domestic policies and by the threat they offered to US regional hegemony, devoted substantial funding and efforts to sabotaging Allende’s progress in ‘establishing a totalitarian Marxist state in Chile’. … The US Treasury secretary, John Connally, argued that preventing a snowballing trend of expropriations across Latin America and the Caribbean required that Chile be made an example. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 321
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Allende government displaced market allocation to remedy material inequalities — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 317; Neoliberal reform in Chile depended on propaganda and a coercive military regime — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1585; Neoconservatives justified permanent American hegemony as a defense against US weakness — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 466 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberal intellectuals helped overthrow Allende before codifying any new-liberalism doctrine.
#expands(0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1545 - Neoliberal reform in Chile depended on propaganda and a coercive military regime
#expands(0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1585 - Neoconservatives justified permanent American hegemony as a defense against US weakness
#expands(0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 466 - Military coercion, not free markets, secured the submission Chilean shock therapy required
#expands(0.72) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 342