In June 1976, Guzmán responded to criticisms of the junta's human rights record by arguing that the 'theme of human rights is a problem of free, modern states'. Faced with terroristic, international communism, he continued, it is necessary to 'guarantee the rights of all the persons within a community', especially the 'majority who want to live in peace'. Guzmán's understanding of rights gave a neoliberal twist to Schmitt's assertion that 'there exists no norm that is applicable to chaos'. If a functioning competitive market is the only guarantee of social peace and human rights, Guzmán believed, then it is legitimate to suspend the rights of those who threaten the market order. … Guzmán himself attributed his conversion to neoliberalism to his 'discovery of Hayek'. In Hayek's work, Pinochet's crown jurist found proposals for a 'constitution of liberty' that would protect the market from (democratic) interference.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 359