In addition to being a fan of Hayek, Cáceres sat on a special board of advisers to the military dictator Augusto Pinochet, who had overthrown Chile's democratically elected Socialist leader, Salvador Allende, in a violent coup four years earlier.
He helped design the country's 1980 constitution, which nested a neoliberal economy in the spikes of an authoritarian state. Like many of his market-minded colleagues in the regime, Cáceres wanted the world to see the dictatorship...as he saw it: on the road to freedom.
after a personal meeting with Pinochet, the philosopher told reporters that he had explained to the tyrant that 'unlimited democracy does not work.'
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