Pinochet’s takeover, and the subsequent “shock treatment” recommended by economist Milton Friedman, had a sinister allure—Chile’s Big Brother spoke of “scrubbing our minds clean.” Visiting the country in May for The Daily Telegraph, Peregrine Worsthorne advised readers to be “more openminded,” because despite the murders, tortures and disappearances, Pinochet’s junta wasn’t as bad as all that. “All right, a military dictatorship is ugly and repressive,” he wrote, clearing his throat. “But if a minority British Socialist Government ever sought, by cunning, duplicity or corruption, terror and
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