With 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.
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky is the independent expert on the effects of foreign debt and human rights for the United Nations. Karinna Fernandez holds a law degree from the Valparaiso University. Sebastian Smart holds a law degree from the Catholic University of Chile and a PhD in sociology at from the University College of London.
Foreword: From economic support of dictatorship to it's not 30 pesos, it is 30 years Juan Mendez 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 Fernandez and Sebastian 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 Dominguez Redondo and Magdalena Sepulveda 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 Jose Miguel Ahumada and Andres 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 Sebastian Smart Chapter 10: Promoting and ensuring inequality: the distributive consequences of the dictatorship Javier Rodriguez Weber Chapter 11: Experts and intellectual complicity in the Chilean dictatorship Marcos Gonzalez Hernando y Tomas 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 Gomez 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 Sebastian 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 Angela 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. Cristian Olmos Herrera Chapter 21: Corporate complicity in human rights violations in Chile: The case of forestry companies and the Mapuche people Jose Aylwin Section 5: Case Studies Chapter 22: Pesquera Arauco and Colonia Dignidad cases Karinna Fernandez Neira and Magdalena Garces Fuentes Chapter 23: The Edwards: the power of a newspaper Nancy Guzman 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 About the Contributors
"Indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights -being civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights- require holistic approaches when violations have been perpetrated at high scale. Elucidating the role of the State agents as well as civil actors -from the economic, ecclesiastic, and any other sphere- is a crucial step towards achieving the guarantees of non-repetition and the fulfillment of protecting obligations of a democratic State, such as the Chilean one, concerning each person subjected to its jurisdiction and the society as a whole. This book represents a contribution in that direction."--Fabian Salvioli, UN Special Rapporteur "What's the relationship of political and economic injustice? This much anticipated tome exposes the lie of the Pinochet myth of the so called Chilean success story under its period of dictatorship: To the contrary, as the authors clearly show here repression and economic inequality went hand in hand producing long-term devastating consequences for Chile and other countries in the region today. A must read."--Ruti Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School
