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Augusto Pinochet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pinochet transferred power to Patricio Aylwin, the new democratically elected president, in 1990; however, he retained his post as commander-in-chief of the army until 1998, when he assumed a seat in the Chilean Senate, which was intended to be his for the duration of his life, according to the constitutional amendments of 1980. Pinochet was born in Valparaíso on November 25, 1915, the son of Augusto Pinochet Vera (descendant of Breton immigrants who arrived in Chile during the 18th century) and Avelina Ugarte Martínez. In his memoirs, Pinochet affirms that he was the leading plotter of the coup, and used his position as Commander of the Army to coordinate a far-reaching scheme with the other two branches of the military and the national police. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Augusto_Pinochet_Ugarte   (5011 words)

Augusto Pinochet Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, son of Augusto Pinochet Vera and of Avelina Ugarte Martínez, was born in Valparaíso[?] on 25 November 1915. Pinochet promised to promote the development of a more open market, in his own words "to make Chile not a nation of proletarians, but a nation of entrepreneurs". According to the transitional provisions of the 1980 constitution, a plebiscite was held in October 1988, to vote on a new eight-year presidential term for Pinochet. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/Augusto_Pinochet.html   (1457 words)

Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Augusto Pinochet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Pinochet was born in Valparaíso on November 25, 1915, the son of Augusto Pinochet Vera and Avelina Ugarte Martínez. General Pinochet came to power in a coup d'état on September 11, 1973, in which the rebelling Chilean Air Force bombed the Presidential Palace while it was being stormed by Army troops. While traveling abroad, Pinochet was arrested in October 1998 in London, England, under an international arrest warrant issued by judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain, and he was placed under house arrest: initially in the clinic where he had just undergone back surgery, and later in a luxurious rented house. www.hallencyclopedia.com /Augusto_Pinochet   (4021 words)

Augusto Pinochet killer file Pinochet says he is writing an autobiography titled 'Caminos Recorridos' (The Roads I Have Travelled) and reveals that he has drafted a letter to be released after his death which will describe "the truth" of what happened. On 10 August, Pinochet's wife, Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet, and younger son, Marco Antonio Pinochet, are arrested and charged as accomplices in the tax evasion case being pursued by Judge Munoz. On 23 January Pinochet's wife, four of his children, the wife of his younger son, one of his lawyers and one of his secretaries are all charged with tax evasion related to the former dictator's overseas bank accounts. www.moreorless.au.com /killers/pinochet.html   (7423 words)

Augusto Pinochet: Tutte le informazioni su Augusto Pinochet su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Pinochet fu nominato a capo del concilio di governo della giunta vittoriosa, e si mosse per frantumare l'opposizione liberale del Cile, arrestando approssimativamente 130,000 individui in un periodo di tre anni. Pinochet promise di promuovere lo sviluppo di un mercato più aperto, con le sue proprie parole ""di fare del Cile non una nazione di proletari, ma una nazione di imprenditori." Il governo di Allende era in rapporti amichevoli con Cuba. A causa delle norme transitorie della costituzione, Pinochet rimase il comandante in capo dell'esercito fino a Marzo1998. www.encyclopedia.it /a/au/augusto_pinochet.html   (1864 words)

Augusto Pinochet, Dictator of the Month, May, 2004 Pinochet transferred power to his successor in 1990 but retained his post as commander-in-chief of the army until 1998, when he assumed a lifelong seat in the Chilean Senate, a position which he abandoned four years later due to health concerns. Since Pinochet was the chief of the oldest branch of the military forces (the Army), he was made head of the victorious junta's governing council; he immediately moved to crush Chile's left-wing opposition, arresting approximately 130,000 individuals in a three-year period. In his memoirs, Pinochet affirms that he was the leading plotter of the coup and used his position as Commander of the Army to coordinate a far-reaching scheme that was coordinated with the other branches of the military. www.dictatorofthemonth.com /Pinochet/May2004PinochetEN.htm   (2118 words)

Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Pinochet remained as commander of the army until 1998, when he was made senator for life, a title that brought with it lifelong immunity from criminal prosecution. On a trip to London that year, he was arrested at the request of the Spanish government on charges including terrorism and murder, stemming from his former regime, and held for possible extradition to Spain. In 2000 he was stripped of his immunity from prosecution, and he was later charged with involvement in kidnappings and murders that occurred after the coup. www.bartleby.com /65/pi/Pinochet.html   (299 words)

[No title] Pinochet's government halted the distribution of lands and dissolved left-wing political parties. On March 11, 1998, in the National Congress in Valparaiso, the former dictator was sworn in as a lifetime senator -- a condition of the transition to democracy - and sat down in the body he had closed down 25 years before, among leaders he had persecuted and exiled. The struggle over whether Pinochet would be extradited to Spain to stand trial for human rights abuses or sent home to retirement in Chile continued for the next 15 months. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/pinochet/overview.htm   (924 words)

pinochet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Ethnicity: Hispanic The case against Augusto Pinochet, a dictator in Chile for 17 years, would be one example (amongst many others that will be added here over time), where the ICC could have been useful to bring a... The current "Bring Pinochet to Justice Campaign" mobilizes U.S. support for efforts to prosecute Pinochet and other members of the Chilean military was releasing a report acknowledging that during the Pinochet dictatorship the bodies of... Augusto Pinochet Augusto Pinochet was arrested at a London hospital. pinochet.oe.one.pl   (429 words)

The Biography Channel - Augusto Pinochet Ugarte Biography Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was born the son of a customs official, rose quickly through the officer corps and, as early as the 1950s, was involved in politics, as he headed the clampdown on the Chilean Communist party. Pinochet ordered the purges that saw more than 3,000 supporters of the Allende regime killed, and many thousands more tortured or forced into exile. Much to his surprise and dismay, this proposal was rejected, and Pinochet was forced to allow the return of civilians to government. www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/493:0/Augusto_Pinochet_Ugarte.htm   (376 words)

HighBeam Encyclopedia - Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) PINOCHET UGARTE, AUGUSTO [Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto], 1915-, president and dictator of Chile (1973-90). An army general who served as chief of staff (1972-73) and commander of the army (1973), he led the coup that overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende (Sept., 1973). New investigations began in 2004, leading to charges of kidnapping and murder and, prompted by revelations of Pinochet's secret offshore bank accounts, tax evasion, and this time the supreme court allowed them to proceed. www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Pinochet.asp   (394 words)

Pinochet Ugarte Augusto - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto (1915- ), military dictator of Chile (1973-1990), whose arrest in 1998 marked an unprecedented prosecution of a former... The military ruled through a junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. On September 11, 1973, Allende was overthrown in a violent military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. uk.encarta.msn.com /Pinochet_Ugarte_Augusto.html   (108 words)

Augusto Pinochet Ugarte - Multimedia - ninemsn Encarta Commander-in-chief of the Chilean army, Augusto Pinochet led the coup against President Salvador Allende in 1973. Pinochet retained presidential powers through 1988 by dealing severely with all political dissent. He was voted out of the presidency in 1990, but retained his military status. au.encarta.msn.com /media_121624350_761572974_-1_1/Augusto_Pinochet_Ugarte.html   (51 words)

Memoria y Justicia - Documentos That, as secondary petition, the attorneys of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte seek temporary dismissal of the case. The defense never petitioned for a stay of proceedings on the grounds that Pinochet Ugarte's condition of dementia qualifies him for exculpation from penal responsibility in the actions under prosecution. That, one expert observer, Dr. Fornazzari believes the subject is affected by light to moderate dementia, in contrast to his colleagues who believe it is a moderate dementia, is unimportant, in the opinion of the court, for he concurs with the fundamental diagnosis of dementia. www.memoriayjusticia.cl /english/en_docs-dismissal.html   (3805 words)

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Profile: Augusto Pinochet Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was born the son of a customs official in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso on 25 November 1915. The young Pinochet rose through the officer corps in an army based on Prussian traditions of discipline and loyalty to the constitution. Gen Pinochet has always defended his actions as those of a patriot who rescued his country from chaos and the threat of communism. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3758403.stm   (914 words)

math lessons - Augusto Pinochet Supporters of Pinochet credit him with staving off what they saw as the beginning of communism, fighting terrorism, and for implementing capitalist-neoliberal market policies that laid the groundwork for rapid economic growth that continued into the 1990s. His opponents charge him with destroying Chile's democracy, pursuing a policy of state terrorism in which thousands of opponents were killed and tortured, catering exclusively to private interests, and adopting economic policies that favored the wealthy and hurt the middle- and low-income sectors in Chile. Lucía Pinochet Hiriart, August Pinochet's eldest daughter, has said the use of torture during his 1973–90 regime was "barbaric and without justification" after seeing the Valech Report. www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Augusto_Pinochet   (3836 words)

human rights watch | the pinochet prosecution: the end of impunity? Although Pinochet was returned to Chile on medical grounds in March 2000, his arrest and detention in London significantly advanced human rights both internationally and in Chile. Judge Juan Guzman indicted Pinochet on a charge of kidnapping, asking that he be held under house arrest and ordering him to face trial in connection with the "disappearances" of prisoners in the first months of his seventeen-year dictatorship. The crimes for which Pinochet is closest to indictment include his command responsibility for a military task force, popularly known as the "Caravan of Death," which removed scores of prisoners from jail and executed them one month after the 1973 military coup. www.hrw.org /campaigns/chile98   (1131 words)

The Pinochet Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) British Secretary of State Jack Straw released Pinochet on March 2, due to the general's enfeebled condition. Carlos Fuentes' powerful testimony, "A victim of Pinochet." The Mexican writer, in a Jan. 26 essay, tells what happened to his friend Orlando Letelier, and indicts the Nixon administration. "Pinochet and the writers": The general and his regime as reflected in Chilean literature and nonfiction. www.publica.com /pinochet.html   (182 words)

Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto - Further Reading - MSN Encarta A discussion of Pinochet's rise to power in 1973 and his strong-armed control of the country. Interviews with 14 Chileans who describe their lives under Pinochet's dictatorship. Soldiers in a Narrow Land: The Pinochet Regime in Chile. encarta.msn.com /readings_761564829/Pinochet_Ugarte_Augusto.html   (82 words)

Pinochet (Ugarte), Augusto His decline in power began in 1988 when he called and lost a plebiscite to ratify him as sole nominee for the presidency. His position of senator-for-life, a position created by a constitution Pinochet wrote while he was president, was intended to give him legal immunity, but the Chilean courts stripped him of this immunity in May 2000. In October 1998, he was arrested in London, England, where he was undergoing medical treatment, on a warrant from Baltasar Garzon, a Spanish lawyer investigating the crimes of his regime and seeking his extradition. www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0018942.html   (432 words)

Pinochet Pinochet, a graduate of the military academy in Santiago (1936), was a career Pinochet assumed sole power, relegating the rest of the junta to an advisory Pinochet was determined to extirpate leftism in Chile and to reassert the primacy of free market www.cbv.ns.ca /dictator/Pinochet.html   (410 words)

Augusto Pinochet The coup ended a period of strained relations between the United States—which had actively sought Allende's removal—and the South American country, and allowed Pinochet to implement profound neoliberal economic reforms and, at the same time, to commit extensive human rights violations, both at home and abroad. His opponents charge him with destroying Chile's democracy, pursuing a policy of state terrorism, catering exclusively for private interests, and adopting economic policies that favored the wealthy and hurt the country's middle- and low-income sectors. Much of the internal opposition to Allende's policies came from business sector, and recently-released U.S. government documents confirm that the U.S. funded the lorry drivers' strike, that had exacerbated the already chaotic economic situation prior to the coup. www.dittatori.it /pinochet-eng.htm   (2005 words)

Un siglo, diez historias: Augusto Pinochet Augusto Pinochet Ugarte nació en 1915 en la provincia chilena de Valparaíso. Sin duda alguna, hablar del general Pinochet significa hablar de una figura que levanta controversia, que abre heridas del pasado y que confronta a la sociedad chilena con su propia historia... Augusto Pinochet: sus palabras y testimonio de Mónica Berham, su camarógrafa desde 1973 www.bbc.co.uk /spanish/seriemilenio07.htm   (314 words)

Augusto Pinochet - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) He came to power in a violent coup that deposed Salvador Allende, a Marxist physician and senior Chilean politician who had become the first Socialist to be elected President of Chile. Opponents such as Noam Chomsky dispute this label, [4] pointing out that the unemployment rate increased from 22% in 1973 to 14% in 1983, while real wages declined by 40%. In the plebiscite, 55% of the votes rejected the extension of the presidential term, againt 42% for "Sí", and again according to the provisions of the constitution, open presidential elections were held the next year, at the same time as congressional elections that would have taken place in either case. www.voyager.in /Augusto_Pinochet   (4593 words)

Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto - Related Items - MSN Encarta Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto - Related Items - MSN Encarta Chile's military leaders, as expected, named President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte the candidate in the long-awaited plebiscite that was to determine the next step in the country's long journey back to democratic rule. The announcement came at the end of August, followed five weeks later by the vote,... encarta.msn.com /related_761564829_4/end_of_regime.html   (56 words)

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