That sounds like U.S.A.
- Share via
I found Marc Cooper’s Op-Ed article on Chile (Opinion, Jan. 18) -- a nation with “a form of ‘savage capitalism’ that operates with virtually no safety nets”; a “faltering privatized pension program”; a healthcare system “disfigured from [former dictator Augusto] Pinochet’s obsessive zeal to privatize”; and where “the military still enjoys unfair perks at civilian expense” -- to be quite remarkable.
Remarkable for how it sounds like a description of the United States.
CHRISTOPHER JOHN SMITH
Los Angeles
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
