Antonys college oxford university 2006 few coups in latin have received so much international attention as that of chile in 1973. Cultural policies and censorship during the pinochet. Dictadura militar del general augusto pinochet ugarte. Some of his legacies are well known, but others are not.
Pinochet directed the coup of september 11, 1973, and presided until 1990 over a military regime that violated human rights, shut down political parties, canceled elections, constrained the press and trade unions, and engaged in other undemocratic actions during its. He was arrested in london six days later and held on house arrest for a year and a half before being released by the british government in march 2000. Cia files on pinochet released world news the guardian. He was the son and namesake of augusto pinochet vera, a descendant of an 18thcentury french breton immigrant from lamballe, and avelina ugarte martinez, a woman whose family had been in chile since the 17th century and was of partial basque descent. The pinochet regime in chile southern methodist university. In that referendum, the chilean people denied pinochet a new mandate. General augusto pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in his native chile by spanish magistrate baltasar garzon on 10 october 1998. Condemnation of pinochet and his regime was almost universal except for the usa because his coup took place in a. The united states, human rights, and international terrorism. Microsofts free reader application, or a booksized computer this is used. The military dictatorship of chile was an authoritarian military regime that ruled chile for. Augusto pinochet following his bloody september 1973 coup detat that overthrew president salvador allende, augusto pinochet, commanderinchief of the chilean armed forces and national police, became head of a military junta that would rule chile for the next seventeen years.
The dictatorship was established after the democraticallyelected socialist government of salvador allende was overthrown in a coup detat on 11. He incurred the wrath of the dictator augusto pinochet, was exiled, and became an expert in how to heal traumatized countries. Dictadura chilena por augusto pinochet escuelapedia. Indictment and arrest of augusto pinochet wikipedia. Augusto jose ramon pinochet ugarte was born in valparaiso on november 25, 1915. Chiles former president, general augusto pinochet, died in december. Bbc mundo america latina cuando chile dijo no a pinochet. Capitulo 2 dictadura militar del general augusto pinochet ugarte. The cia was reporting widespread repression by the military regime in chile days after the 1973 coup led by general augusto pinochet, according to us government documents released last night.
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