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<html> <head> <title>Augusto Pinochet</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/393/000022327/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Augusto Pinochet<img src="pinochet.jpg" height=299 width=220 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Augusto Pinochet">AKA Augusto José Ramón Pinochet UgarteBorn: <a href="/lists/847/000106529/" class=proflink>25-Nov</a>-<a href="/lists/914/000105599/" class=proflink>1915</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/291/000080051/" class=proflink>Valparaiso, Chile</a> Died: <a href="/lists/231/000106910/" class=proflink>10-Dec</a>-<a href="/lists/891/000110561/" class=proflink>2006</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/723/000100423/" class=proflink>Santiago, Chile</a> Cause of death: Complications of Surgery Remains: Cremated Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/758/000094476/" class=proflink>Roman Catholic</a> Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Head of StateNationality: Chile Executive summary: Overthrew Chile with CIA's helpMilitary service: Chilean Army (1933-98)Augusto Pinochet attended a military college, and served with distinction in Chile's Army. He was rapidly promoted, and continued his studies at the Chilean war academy, Academia de Guerra, where he also taught. In the early 1950s, Pinochet was involved in Chile's arrests and imprisonment of communists, suspected communists, and union leaders. For about two years, Pinochet commanded a concentration camp for commies. Times change, and in 1970, a Socialist, <a href="/people/053/000091777/">Salvador Allende</a>, was elected President of Chile. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency secretly spent millions of dollars funding Chilean opposition groups, to "create pressures, exploit weaknesses [and] magnify obstacles" for Allende. Within a few years the Chilean economy was in chaos, and the CIA spent at least $11 million more to plan and fund a coup that would put Pinochet in power. Almost comically unaware, Allende gave Pinochet complete command of the Army. On 11 September 1973, the coup toppled Chile's government, and Allende was either killed or committed suicide. Pinochet promptly appointed himself President, suspended the Constitution, closed Parliament, banned opposition political activists, illegalized trade unions, and initiated media censorship. Soccer stadiums and military bases were converted into prisons, while new prisons were rapidly constructed. "Liberal" judges were fired, and suspected leftists were rounded up, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. At least thousands of people (some say many more) who spoke out against Pinochet were arrested, and never heard from again. They were called "the disappeared". During this time, the head of Chile's secret police was on the CIA payroll. The U.S. was one of the first nations to recognize Pinochet's presidency as "legitimate", and restored foreign aid that had been stopped while Allende was President. In short, Pinochet was America's man in Chile. Pinochet gave his country a new Constitution in 1980 which, among other things, gave him the absolute power to arrest, imprison, or exile any citizen for any reason with no recourse, solely on his say-so. The new Constitution, however, also established that he would face a plebiscite (yes/no vote) in 1988. As that date approached, opposition forces united and risked their lives by campaigning for a no vote, and "no" won. Pinochet stepped down as President in 1990, but under the terms of the Constitution he'd written, he remained commander of the Army until 1998. Not surprisingly, there were no prosecutions against high-ranking officials of the Pinochet Presidency during this time. When he resigned as commander of the Army, he became a Chilean Senator-for-life -- another stipulation of Pinochet's Constitution. He was arrested in England in 1998, under a Spanish warrant for crimes against humanity. Due to his frail health, however, Pinochet was allowed to return to Chile, where his health seemed to improve quickly. In 2003, the United States came the closest it's ever come to apologizing for all this: A reporter asked Secretary of State <a href="/people/649/000022583/">Colin Powell</a> about Allende and Chile, and he answered, "it is not a part of American history that we're proud of".Father: Augusto Pinochet (Chilean customs officer) Mother: Avelina Ugarte Martínez Wife: Maria Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez (m. 1943, two sons, three daughters) Daughter: Inez Lucía Pinochet Son: Agusto Osvaldo Pinochet Daughter: Maria Veronica Pinochet Son: Marco Antonio Pinochet Daughter: Jacqueline Marie Pinochet     High School: Rafael Seminary, Valparaiso     High School: Rafael Ariztía Institute, Quillota     High School: Military School, Santiago (1931-35)     <a href="/gov/335/000107014/">President of Chile</a> (17-Dec-1974 to 11-Mar-1990)     <a href="/gov/335/000107014/">President of Chile</a> Military Junta (11-Sep-1973 to 17-Dec-1974)     <a href="/gov/205/000206584/">Chilean Official</a> Commander-in-Chief, Chilean Army (1973-98)     <a href="/gov/205/000206584/">Chilean Official</a> General Chief of Staff, Chilean Army (1972-73)     <a href="/event/178/000089908/">House Arrest</a>     <a href="/event/146/000054981/">Assassination Attempt</a> 8-Sep-1986     <a href="/event/366/000218709/">Hernia Operation</a> Military Hospital, Santiago, Chile (Jul-1989)     <a href="/event/187/000071971/">Stroke</a> 1999     <a href="/event/187/000071971/">Stroke</a> 18-Dec-2004     <a href="/event/170/000087906/">Heart Attack</a> 3-Dec-2006     <a href="/event/035/000087771/">Angioplasty</a> 3-Dec-2006     <a href="/crime/337/000055172/">Torture</a> arrested in London (17-Oct-1998)     <a href="/crime/504/000045369/">Conspiracy</a> arrested in London (17-Oct-1998)     <a href="/event/535/000363443/">Competency Hearing</a> London, England (Dec-1998), competent     <a href="/event/535/000363443/">Competency Hearing</a> London, England (11-Jan-2000), not competent     <a href="/event/535/000363443/">Competency Hearing</a> Santiago, Chile (Mar-2001), not competent     <a href="/event/535/000363443/">Competency Hearing</a> Santiago, Chile (Dec-2004), competent     <a href="/crime/313/000043184/">Kidnapping</a> Dec-2004 (indicted)     <a href="/crime/301/000043172/">Murder</a> Dec-2004 (indicted)     <a href="/crime/315/000043186/">Tax Evasion</a> 23-Nov-2005     <a href="/crime/375/000050225/">Forgery</a> 23-Nov-2005     Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/783/000064591/">Diabetes</a>, <a href="/lists/779/000064587/">Obesity</a>, <a href="/lists/788/000064596/">Arthritis</a>, <a href="/lists/786/000167285/">Pacemaker</a> Rotten Library Page: <a href="http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/dictators/agosto-pinochet/">Augusto Pinochet</a> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=22327"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=22327">Augusto Pinochet</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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