With a focus on Chile, Pinochets Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by
Force uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing on
the behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectives
in terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. This
book makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the Chilean
dictatorship and explains their links with the radical inequalities the country has
today while proposing a theoretical framework for their study. Scholars of Latin
American studies, history, sociology, economics, business, and human rights will
find this book particularly useful.
Foreword: From economic support of dictatorship to its not 30 pesos, it is 30 years
Juan Méndez
Chapter 1: Complicity in context: Its the economy, stupid!
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Section 1: Economic Complicity Past and Present
Chapter 2:The belated centrality of the economic dimension in transitional justice
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Chapter 3: Foreign economic assistance and respect for civil and political rights: Chile a case study
Antonio Cassese
Chapter 4: Casseses great contributions and unresolved complaints
Karinna Fernández and Sebastián Smart
Chapter 5: Contextualizing the Cassese Report: The dictatorship that changed the United Nations human rights system and its legacy in monitoring economic, social and cultural rights
Elvira Domínguez Redondo and Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona
Chapter 6:Transitional justice and economic actors: Latin Americas protagonism
Leigh A. Payne, Gabriel Pereira and Laura Bernal-Bermudez
Section 2: Pinochet s Economy
Chapter 7: The Chilean economic model and its subordinate democracy
José Miguel Ahumada and Andrés Solimano
Chapter 8: Unraveling the financial assistance to the Pinochets regime
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Mariana Rulli
Chapter 9: Extractivism as a policy: From its dictatorial origins to its democratic
continuity
Sebastián Smart
Chapter 10: Promoting and ensuring inequality: the distributive consequences of the dictatorship
Javier Rodríguez Weber
Chapter 11: Experts and intellectual complicity in the Chilean dictatorship
Marcos González Hernando y Tomás Undurraga
Section 3: A Game of Support, Corruption and Material Benefits
Chapter 12: The support of the Chambers of Commerce to the dictatorship
Rodrigo Araya Gómez
Chapter 13: The media during the dictatorship: between economic benefits and journalistic complicity
Carla Moscoso
Chapter 14: A cat with no bell. The privatization of the Chilean pension system during Pinochets dictatorship
Mariana Rulli
Chapter 15: Privatization and repression: Two sides of the same coin
Sebastián Smart
Section 4: Repressive rules and procedures for corporations
Chapter 16:Union law: Anti-unionism as a neoliberal victory
Daniela Marzi
Chapter 17: The employers do what they want with us: Unions and workers under the Pinochet dictatorship
Ángela Vergara and Peter Winn
Chapter 18: The Dismantling of the welfare State and mass imprisonment in Chile
Silvio Cuneo Nash
Chapter 19: Pinochets repressive urbanism: the violent neoliberalisation of space in Santiago
Francisco Vergara Perucich
Chapter 20: Autonomy in times of economic complicity: mining expansion and water practices in northern Chile.
Cristián Olmos Herrera
Chapter 21:Corporate complicity in human rights violations in Chile: The case of forestry companies and the Mapuche people
José Aylwin
Section 5: Case Studies
Chapter 22: Pesquera Arauco and Colonia Dignidad cases
Karinna Fernández Neira and Magdalena Garcés Fuentes
Chapter 23: The Edwards: the power of a newspaper
Nancy Guzmán
Section 6: Legal elements of economic complicity
Chapter 24: Corporate responsibility for complicity in international and comparative law
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Chapter 25: Economic complicity under Chilean law
Pietro Sferrazza Taibi and Francisco Bustos Bustos
Section 7: Conclusions and prospects
Chapter 26: Present-day Chile: Genealogy of a business paradise
Julio Pinto Vallejos
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