An examination of Liberté sans Frontières directs attention to the economic questions that the human rights NGOs in Latin America largely disregarded. Far from vacating the economic field and confining itself to criticising violations of civil and political rights, as Amnesty International had done in Chile, LSF mobilised the language of human rights explicitly against Third Worldist demands for postcolonial economic redistribution. Rony Brauman, a former member of the Maoist Gauche Prolétarienne, who was president of MSF and director of LSF, later reflected that he was interested in contesting the idea that 'poverty, misery in the Global South was the by-product of our prosperity in the Global North'. This idea placed the 'blame' for postcolonial poverty on the 'shoulders of the Global North', rather than on those postcolonial leaders he believed bore responsibility for their peoples' plights. LSF went beyond merely criticising the violation of human rights to contest what it depicted as a Western guilt complex over colonialism.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 379