Chile · 1973–1990
Augusto Pinochet
Military dictator. Market reforms under the Chicago Boys, with torture and disappearance of opponents.
Augusto Pinochet is on the world-leaders chart for Chile, 1973–1990. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Military dictator. Market reforms under the Chicago Boys, with torture and disappearance of opponents.
The dot is economics +66 and authority +84, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Left means a larger public role. Up means more authority. Neither direction is treated as the correct one.
A second note separates what was said in public from what the government then did. Said: Order, and a free economy the socialists had wrecked. Done: Market reforms under a junta. Disappearance and torture were the political method. The gap, when there is one, is part of the placement. A promise that was kept and a promise that was dropped are not given the same weight.
The nearest other figures on these two numbers are Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore, +44 / +74) and Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil, +46 / +54). Nearest means nearest on the chart, not alike in character.
Augusto Pinochet is marked as a historical extreme so the corner of the scale is not empty. The dot is not a recommendation, and it stays off the default nearest list unless it is closer than every ordinary figure.