Argentina Quotes
Based on this statement, the coup came to be called “The Gentlemen’s Coup.”
Chile with help from San Martin had ejected the Spanish. O’Higgins, the Chilean leader had joined up with San Martin and served under his command. The sectional rivalry bothered men like Carrera. Instead of seeing all the South Americans fighting the Spanish as allies as O’Higgins did, Carrera and his brothers refused to join a government of unity and they and their troops were just as dictatorial and cruel as the Spanish had been. O’Higgins gave Indians and Blacks equal rights with whites which distressed the aristocratic Carrera’s. Finally the Carrera’s tried to set up their own government, and the new Chilean government disarmed their militia and executed two of the three Carrera brothers who were leading the militia troops who were little more than thieves and brigands.
Criticism of the World Bank and the IMF was not limited to the turn of the century fights over development and globalization. The difficulty for the word financial institutions was and is that they believe that they have to work with whatever government is in power regardless of the legitimacy of that government or what kinds of anti-democratic methods they used to come to power and hold it. In this particular case, democracy had been displaced and right wing death squads were operating with impunity. For many, the World Bank and IMF are equally guilty for helping to prop these governments up and ignoring the gross Human Rights Violation which they failed to condemn.
