Original sentence: Chilean economist Jacobo Schatan writes, "It was clear that the scarcity had been manipulated for political reasons, to create a climate favourable to both the coup and, subsequently, the total change of the economic system.Following the 1983 implosion, the Pinochet dictatorship did not abandon the free-market reforms of El Ladrillo.In 1973, due in part to a sustained US campaign against the elected government , the Chilean population were critically short on many food and consumer items
Edited sentence: Chilean economist Jacobo Schatan wrote "It was clear that the scarcity had been manipulated for political reasons, to create a climate favourable to both the coup and, subsequently, the total change of the economic system.Following the 1983 implosion, the government did not abandon the free-market reforms of El Ladrillo.In 1973, due in part to a sustained US campaign against the elected government , but mostly due to the economic blunders of the Allende administration, the Chilean population were critically short on many food and consumer items