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Pinochet allowed the [[Chicago Boys]] to move Chile into a market economy, privatizing many inefficient government businesses, and opening the country to foreign investment. The stability that his government gave encouraged foreign investors to come to Chile. His minister, [[José Piñera]], started one of the first [[private pension accounts|Individual capitalization]] pension systems in the world, which has been highly successful. [[Hernán Büchi]] was responsible for reintroducing economic liberal policies at the end of the government.
Pinochet allowed the [[Chicago Boys]] to move Chile into a market economy, privatizing many inefficient government businesses, and opening the country to foreign investment. The stability that his government gave encouraged foreign investors to come to Chile. His minister, [[José Piñera]], started one of the first [[private pension accounts|Individual capitalization]] pension systems in the world, which has been highly successful. [[Hernán Büchi]] was responsible for reintroducing economic liberal policies at the end of the government.
[[File:Pinochet in La Moneda.jpg|250px|thumbnail|President Augusto Pinochet in [[La Moneda|La Moneda Palace]].]]
[[File:Pinochet in La Moneda.jpg|250px|thumbnail|President Augusto Pinochet in [[La Moneda|La Moneda Palace]].]]
Between 1977 and 1978 Pinochet had to put up with [[Argentina]]'s tough stance on the dispute over the Beagle Channel islands, which almost caused a war. Augusto Pinochet reinforced the [[Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region|southern zone]] preparing the Armed Forces for a possible war, but it would not be the Chileans who would start a war. The interest of [[Pope John Paul II]] in the conflict made the presidents of Chile and Argentina accept the mediation of the Vatican. On May 2, 1985, the Foreign Ministers of Chile and Argentina signed the Peace Treaty before Pope John Paul II. That same day, President Pinochet announced the importance of the signing of this border treaty to the country on national radio and television. On April 1987 Pope John Paul II visited Chile.
Between 1977 and 1978 Pinochet had to put up with [[Argentina]]'s tough stance on the dispute over the Beagle Channel islands, which almost caused a war. Augusto Pinochet reinforced the [[Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region|southern zone]] preparing the Armed Forces for a possible war, but it would not be the Chileans who would start a war. The interest of [[Pope John Paul II]] in the conflict made the presidents of Chile and Argentina accept the mediation of the Vatican. In 1982 during the [[Falklands War]], Chile helped the United Kingdom since Argentina was a real threat for the country, and if they won the war they were going to attack Chile after. [[Margaret Thatcher]] thanked the Chilean support when Pinochet was captured in London in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/26/pinochet.chile2|title=Thatcher visits her old friend Pinochet|date=March 26, 1999|publisher=The Guardian}}</ref> On May 2, 1985, the Foreign Ministers of Chile and Argentina signed the Peace Treaty before Pope John Paul II. That same day, President Pinochet announced the importance of the signing of this border treaty to the country on national radio and television. On April 1987 Pope John Paul II visited Chile.
Chile was blocked on the international weapon market, however the country bought weapons from [[Israel]], [[Spain]], [[Rhodesia]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1987/04/12/espana/545176811_850215.html|title=Las armas que España vendió a Pinochet|date=April 11, 1987|language=es|publisher=El País}}</ref> and [[South Africa]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-11-28-declassified-apartheid-profits-pals-with-pinochet/|title=Declassified: Apartheid Profits –Pals with Pinochet|date=November 28, 2017|publisher=Daily Maverick}}</ref><ref>[https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-relationship-between-Chile-under-Pinochet-and-Apartheid-South-Africa]</ref> as well as making their own mainly in FAMAE and made by Carlos Cardoen. Chile sold weapons produced by Carlos Cardoen to [[Saddam Hussein]] from [[Irak]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nacla.org/article/pincohet-arms-merchant|title=Pincohet, Arms Merchant|date=March 6, 2008|publisher=Nacla}}</ref><ref>[https://rebelion.org/recordando-los-pinochet-e-irak/]</ref> and supposedly to China.
China was one of the few in the socialist orbit that did not break diplomatic relations with Pinochet's military junta. The Asian country granted a credit of 62 million dollars to the Chilean military government presided by General Augusto Pinochet in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1977/08/16/internacional/240530424_850215.html|publisher=El País|date= August 16, 1977|language=es|title=Crédito de China a Pinochet}}</ref>
The US adopted sanctions to Chilean Fruit exports for 'human right abusses' and pressured Chile to introduce a series of economic reforms, a process that escalated sharply in the eighties. This led to a period of rapid economic expansion and development without precedent in Latin America, in which growth averaged 7% annually, that came to be known as the "''miracle of Chile''" (it also included the region's greatest reductions in infant mortality<ref>Nick Eberstadt, The Poverty of Communism (Transaction Publishers, 1990), pp188, 196-206, 240-6, in which he discusses living standards in [[Communist]] [[Cuba]] versus Pinochet's Chile.</ref>). In turn, this allowed Chile to make a long-term transition to sustainable democratic rule that would likely have been otherwise inconceivable.<ref>http://www.lyd.com/noticias/violencia/what_really.html</ref>
The US adopted sanctions to Chilean Fruit exports for 'human right abusses' and pressured Chile to introduce a series of economic reforms, a process that escalated sharply in the eighties. This led to a period of rapid economic expansion and development without precedent in Latin America, in which growth averaged 7% annually, that came to be known as the "''miracle of Chile''" (it also included the region's greatest reductions in infant mortality<ref>Nick Eberstadt, The Poverty of Communism (Transaction Publishers, 1990), pp188, 196-206, 240-6, in which he discusses living standards in [[Communist]] [[Cuba]] versus Pinochet's Chile.</ref>). In turn, this allowed Chile to make a long-term transition to sustainable democratic rule that would likely have been otherwise inconceivable.<ref>http://www.lyd.com/noticias/violencia/what_really.html</ref>