[rdouble]

Maybe everyone's a capitalist there out of residual cultural fear of being targeted by a caravan of death for having an alternative viewpoint.

[davidw]

They actually have seemed to pick fairly sensible, middle of the road type of people after having ditched Pinochet, rather than lurching to the other extreme.

It seems like a country that's doing pretty well, but I honestly have no idea what things are like 'on the ground'.

[rdouble]

My comment was tongue in cheek. However, I did think the GP's comment about Chile being "instinctively capitalist" was a bit ridiculous considering the country's history.