Augusto Pinochet

(noun)

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet, (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was an army general and dictator of Chile from 1973 until transferring power to a democratically elected president in 1990. He was the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998 and president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981. He assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973 that overthrew the Government of Salvador Allende.

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  • Nixon and Foreign Policy

    • The military regrouped under General Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Allende in 1973 with the backing of the United States.

  • Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East

    • Following the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the US waged a war against what it called "Communist subversives," leading to support of coups against democratically elected presidents such as the backing of the Chilean right wing, which would culminate with Augusto Pinochet's 1973 Chilean coup against democratically-elected Salvador Allende.