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Pinochet: La Biografía (Pinochet: Description Biography)
By Gonzalo Vial Correa
742 pages, Santiago: Oped article Aguilar
Sicken Mercurio, 2002 (in Spanish)
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Biography of Augusto Pinochet, Chile's Military Dictator
Augusto Pinochet (November 25, 1915–December 10, 2006) was an army officer and dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990. His years in power were marked by inflation, poverty, and the ruthless repression of opposition leaders. Pinochet was involved in Operation Condor, a cooperative effort by several South American governments to remove leftist opposition leaders, often by murder. Several years after stepping down, he was charged with war crimes concerning his time as president but died in 2006 before being convicted on any charges.
Fast Facts: Augusto Pinochet
- Known For: Dictator of Chile
- Born: Nov. 25, 1915 in Valparaiso, Chile
- Parents: Augusto Pinochet Vera, Avelina Ugarte Martinez
- Died: Dec. 10, 2006 in Santiago, Chile
- Education: Chilean War Academy
- Published Works: The Crucial Day
- Spouse: María Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez
- Children: Augusto Osvaldo, Jacqueline Marie, Lucía, Marco Antonio, María Verónica
- Notable Quote: "Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist."
Early Life
Pinochet was born on Nov. 25, 1915, in Valparaiso, Chile to descendants of French settlers who had come to
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In October 1998 he became the centre of international attention when he was arrested in London, following a request from Spain for his extradition to stand trial for ‘crimes of genocide and terrorism’, in which some of the victims had been Spanish nationals. The arrest caused tension between UK and Chile, and civil unrest in Chile between Pinochet supporters and opponents. At the beginning of 2000, Pinochet remained under house arrest in the UK, pending the outcome of legal procedures, but the UK government returned him to Chile on the grounds of ill health. Chile’s Court of Appeal decided to strip Pinochet of immunity from prosecution, and he was later ordered to stand trial.
In 2001 a Santiago appeals court voted in favour of suspending proceedings against him on the grounds that he was mentally unfit to stand trial, and in 2002 the Chilean Supreme Court ruled that proceedings against him be suspended for good. However, in 2004 the Court of Appeal stripped him of immunity from prosecution, thus paving the way for a trial on charges of human rights abuses during his rule.
Pinochet died December 10, 2006, never having stood trial for the crimes for which he was accused.
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