Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet     (soldier, politician)
Born	Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte 1915-11-25 Valparaíso, Chile
Died	2006-12-10 (Age 91) Santiago, Chile
Nationality	Chilean
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Children	• Inés Lucía Pinochet • María Verónica Pinochet • Jacqueline Marie Pinochet • Augusto Osvaldo Pinochet • Marco Antonio Pinochet
President of Chile  In office 17 December 1974 - 11 March 1990  President of the Government Junta of Chile In office 11 September 1973 - 11 March 1981  Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army In office 23 August 1973 - 11 March 1998  Senator for life of Chile In office 11 March 1998 - 4 July 2002

Augusto Pinochet was a CIA-backed dictator who seized power in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. He “was widely supported in ultraright western circles surrounding the CIA and private groups as the WACL, Le Cercle and American Security Council. Recent evidence has shown that Pinochet was involved in large-scale cocaine trafficking to Europe and that by the 1980s this was sanctioned as long a portion of the profits went to the Reagan-backed Contra armies in Nicaragua.”

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Pinochet Coup in Chile	book extract	12 February 2007	Mark Curtis

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