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Chileans started to make huge lines to get basic goods such as toilet paper, toothpaste and food. The black market flourished which only accepted U.S. Dollars. People started selling everything that they had in order to get dollars to buy the basics. The Government created the Committees for Popular Supply (''Juntas de Abastecimiento Popular, JAP'') rationing a country that had been previously prosperous.  

Chileans started to make huge lines to get basic goods such as toilet paper, toothpaste and food. The black market flourished which only accepted U.S. Dollars. People started selling everything that they had in order to get dollars to buy the basics. The Government created the Committees for Popular Supply (''Juntas de Abastecimiento Popular, JAP'') rationing a country that had been previously prosperous.  

A ration card was implemented, and it was only with the ration card that the people could get the basics like rice, potatoes and cooking oil, the ration card was needed to feed your family. The ''JAPs'' were in every neighborhood where the ration card was stamped by the head of the ''JAP'' who was a member of the Popular Unity leftist parties. This was used to excluse political opponents and the government accussed those people of being "an oligarch" or "an enemy of the people". Food became politicized the situation in Chile was just just deteriorating on daily basis.<ref name=Lira/>

A ration card was implemented, and it was only with the ration card that the people could get the basics like rice, potatoes and cooking oil, the ration card was needed to feed your family. The ''JAPs'' were in every neighborhood where the ration card was stamped by the head of the ''JAP'' who was a member of the Popular Unity leftist parties. This was used to excluse political opponents and the government accussed those people of being "an oligarch" or "an enemy of the people". Food became politicized the situation in Chile was just just deteriorating on daily basis.<ref name=Lira/>

The left says that the fault of this is from [[Richard Nixon]] who had a meeting with [[Henry Kissinger]] after the whole agenda debacle and said that he wanted the Chilean economy "to scream", however, in 1970 the world economies were not completely integrated as in the XXI Century, Chile's largest training partner was not the United States but Argentina and Peru because of the proximity. Even if the Nixon Administration wanted to squeeze the Chilean economy, they couldn't success, especially not after all the American companies were expropriated by the Allende regime. '''The Popular Unity Government has all the fault of the food shortages and economic crisis, this is now denied for political reasons.'''

The left says that the fault of this is from [[Richard Nixon]] who had a meeting with [[Henry Kissinger]] after the whole agenda debacle and said that he wanted the Chilean economy "to scream", however, in 1970 the world economies were not completely integrated as in the XXI Century, Chile's largest training partner was not the United States but Argentina and Peru because of the proximity. Even if the Nixon Administration wanted to squeeze the Chilean economy, they couldn't success, especially not after all the American companies were expropriated by the Allende regime. '''The Popular Unity Government has all the fault of the food shortages and economic crisis, this is now denied for political reasons.'''