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Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte
On September 11, 1973, Pinochet, recently appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, along with the Navy, Air Force and National Police, led a coup d'etat against Socialist President Salvador Allende and established a military government. Pinochet implemented a series of military operations in which (according to the 1993 Rettig Report) approximately 3,000 people were killed , while (according to the 2004 Valech Report) 27,000 were incarcerated without trials and subjected to torture . Thousands more fled in exile, in particular to Argentina, as well as Peru and applied as political refugees; however, they were followed in their exile by the DINA secret police, in the frame of Operation Condor which linked South American dictatorships together against political opponents.
In 1974, the junta appointed Pinochet president by a joint decree, later confirmed by a highly controversial plebiscite in 1980. He remained in power until 1990, after his attempt to continue to rule was defeated in the 1988 plebiscite. After stepping down, he continued to serve as Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army until March 10, 1998, when he retired and became a senator-for-life in accordance to the 1980 Constitution.
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