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According to his critics, Friedman did not criticize Pinochet's dictatorship at the time, nor the assassinations, illegal imprisonments, torture, or other atrocities that were well known by then.

In his 1980 documentary Free to Choose, he said the following: " Chile is not a politically free system, and I do not condone the system.

But the people there are freer than the people in Communist societies because government plays a smaller role.

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The conditions of the people in the past few years has been getting better and not worse.

They would be still better to get rid of the junta and to be able to have a free democratic system.

" In 1984 Friedman stated that he has " never refrained from criticizing the political system in Chile.