The Annual Public Account issued by the presidents of the Republic of Chile are a tradition in which the president presents the public policies for the coming year. Recognizing the timeliness of their content, this is a descriptive-interpretive study based on an analysis of texts and correspondence related to the presidential discourses issued by the dictator Augusto Pinochet from 1981-1989 and their neoliberal character. The analysis allows establishing the neoliberal base of the social policy of the dictatorship, in relevant realms: ideological, market-economic, institutional and social.
Neoliberalism; Discourse; Dictatorship; Social Policy