Augusto Pinochet
1915 – 2006 Chilean military ruler, president of Chile
General who led the 1973 coup against Allende and ruled Chile as a dictator until 1990.
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Affiliations
- Chilean Army, military junta
Augusto Pinochet led the September 1973 military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende and headed the junta that ruled Chile for nearly seventeen years. His regime carried out systematic repression, and official truth commissions later documented thousands of people killed or disappeared and tens of thousands tortured. His government also imposed free-market economic reforms associated with the Chicago School. He lost a 1988 plebiscite and stepped down in 1990; he was arrested in London in 1998 on human rights charges but died in 2006 before facing a full trial.
Connections
- rival of Salvador Allende — Led the coup that overthrew and replaced him.
- rival of Salvador Allende — Pinochet led the coup that overthrew him.
In the timeline
- 1973 The Chilean coup overthrows Allende mentioned
- 1973 Pinochet's coup topples Allende mentioned
- 1973 Chile's coup and the arrival of the Chicago Boys mentioned
- 1973 Pinochet Coup in Chile mentioned
- 1973 The coup against Allende brings Pinochet to power the coup leader
- 1973 Chile's Salvador Allende is overthrown in a military coup mentioned
- 1973 Augusto Pinochet's junta takes power in Chile the junta leader
- 1988 Chile votes No to Pinochet the defeated ruler
- 1998 Pinochet arrested in London mentioned
- 1998 Pinochet is arrested in London the arrested former ruler
- 2000 The Chile Declassification Project releases coup files mentioned
- 2006 Augusto Pinochet dies under indictment central figure