His letter would seem to support the argument, made most prominently by Juan Gabriel Valdés – the son of the founder of Chile's Christian Democrats, Gabriel Valdés – that there was 'a permanent and irreconcilable struggle between the ideas promoted by Chicago and the Catholic point of view'. How curious, then, that this same young student, José Piñera, went on to play a major role in Pinochet's 'modernisation' of Chilean society, and is idolised today by the neoliberal right as the architect of the world's first fully privatised national social security system.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 352