The Latin America WikiLeaks--US diplomatic cables reveal a coordinated assault against Latin America’s left-wing governments.

Yes, continue to insist that Greece's creditors "subverted democracy". All Greece had to do was stop asking for ECB money and they would have been free to do whatever they wanted. The conditions imposed on Greece were for money, the ECB and IMF bailed them out! Greeks didn't like what would have happened if they didn't get lots of free money, because no matter how many words like "heterodox" you invent, trying to prop up state spending beyond what the economy can handle is simply bad policy.

coercion (e.g., conditions attached to IMF loans)

So you would rather not have the loans? God forbid someone attaches a condition to a multi-billion dollar loan.

stagnant growth (almost no per capita income growth for the twenty years from 1980-2000)

The Chicago Boys were most active in Chile. If you look up "Chicago Boys" on Wikipedia, there's an entire section devoted to Chile. Here's Chile's PPP-per-capita, 1980 to 2000, compared against the rest of Latin America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile#/media/File:GDP_per_capita_LA-Chile.png

I'll handle the boring math part for you: Chile averaged 6.1% yoy growth in PPP per capita from 1980-2000. For comparison, the US yoy growth in PPP per capita 1980-2000 was 5.4%. Clearly, we're taking them for all they have. NB: the linked dataset is less aggressively adjusted for CPI than the graph; with better inflation accounting both values would be slightly lower.

Okay, fine. But Evo Morales, he bucked the trend, kicked the US out, and ushered in a "heterodox" paradise, right?

Unfortunately for the State Department, it soon became clear that these sorts of threats would be duly ignored. Morales had already decided to drastically reduce Bolivia’s reliance on multilateral credit lines that required US Treasury vetting. Within weeks of his taking office, Morales announced that Bolivia would no longer be beholden to the IMF, and let the loan agreement with the Fund expire. Years later, Morales would advise Greece and other indebted European countries to follow Bolivia’s example and “economically free themselves from the International Monetary Fund’s dictate.”

Unable to force Morales to do its bidding, the State Department began focusing instead on strengthening the Bolivian opposition. The opposition-controlled Media Luna region began receiving increased US assistance. A cable from April 2007 discusses “USAID’s larger effort to strengthen regional governments as a counter-balance to the central government.”

Bolivia's PPP per capita grew at 4.7% from 2006-13.

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