Yesterday's accomplices, beneficiaries of today: The knots of inequality tied by the dictatorship

Abstract

This chapter explores the role that both national and foreign key economic actors played during General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship; how and why the economic policies implemented during the dictatorship reconfigured the country's economic framework, facilitating and deepening the levels of inequality still present in Chile; and why and how the new constitution should untie this knot in order to guarantee accountability, reduce the levels of inequality and ensure the fulfilment of economic and social rights of the whole of Chile's population.