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Book SynopsisWith a focus on Chile, Pinochet's 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. The editors and contributors argue that this is crucial largely because a basic principle of justice indicates that those who contributed to the violation of human rights must be held accountable, and that same responsibility can generate preventative measures for the future. Furthermore, making visible the economic accomplices creates a more complete narrative of the recent past and questions society, rather than ignoring the economic factors that made a criminal regime possible, which creates the risk of hindering inclusive democratic measures in the future. Scholars of Latin American studies, history, sociology, and economics will find this book particularly useful.
Table of ContentsForeword: From economic support of dictatorship to it’s not 30 pesos, it is 30 years
Juan Méndez
Chapter 1: Complicity in context: It’s 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: Cassese’s 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 America’s 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 Pinochet’s 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 Pinochet’s 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: Pinochet’s 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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