So, a thing we may need to talk about is the well-established concept of the "IMF Riot".
It was an explicit and (quietly) admitted part of the tactics of the Chicago Boys and others of that school in the 1980s and 1990s, as part of their shock doctrine to break any status quo and create openings for opportunists.
They would recommend that a government – sometimes an unsuspecting one – made economic changes which would cause extreme financial and social discontent.
This would, if all went to plan, boil up into civil unrest. The government could then announce crackdowns and declare martial law or whatever, and take centralised authoritarian control of the country – "to restore law and order," you understand.
And that would be it. The regime and controls would then remain in power indefinitely.
In that era they used the IMF as the vehicle for delivering the "advice" to the government, hence the name. But the tactic of deliberately provoking unrest in order to have a pretext for cracking down is as old as the hills.
Not all provocations look like Kristallnacht.