In Chile, Amnesty's impartiality and refusal of violence gave it a legitimacy that enabled it to travel the country and speak out against torture and disappearance. But it simultaneously contributed to normalising a closure of the political imagination and delegitimising other emancipatory visions. … Chile has been transformed from a 'society in which political mobilisation was the characteristic route to recognition into one where individual access to the market is the preferred means of advancement' – a development fostered by the extension of credit, which has made consumption available to the poor at the cost of entwining them in a disciplinary relation of indebtedness.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 372