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"To attract investment, Argentina took out a thirty-one page advertising supplement in BusinessWeek, produced by the PR giant Burson-Marsteller, declaring that "few governments in history have been as encouraging to private investment... We are in a true social revolution, and we seek partners. We are unburdening ourselves of statism, and believe firmly in the all-important role of the private sector." Once again, the human impact was unmistakeable: within a year, wages lost 40 per cent of their value, factories closed, poverty spiraled. Before the junta took power, Argentina had fewer people living in poverty than France or the U.S. - just 9 per cent - and an unemployment rate of only 4.2 per cent. Now the country began to display signs of the underdevelopment thought to have been left behind." The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein Naomi Klein talks about The Shock Doctrine - YouTube