In a letter to the editors of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he suggested that each Pole would be happy if he/she were fortunate enough to escape to Chile (Hennecke 2000, 349). On another occasion, in 1981, when a journalist from Venezuela's Daily Journal asked him about totalitarian governments in Latin America, Hayek answered: “Don't confuse totalitarianism with authoritarianism. I don't know of any totalitarian governments in Latin America. The only one was Chile under (former Marxist president Salvador) Allende. Chile is now a great success. The world shall come to regard the recovery of Chile as one of the great economic miracles of our time” (quoted in Ebenstein 2001, 300).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1590