Chile Under Pinochet
"When the army comes out, it is to kill."—Augusto Pinochet
Following his bloody September 1973 coup d''état that overthrew President Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Armed Forces and National Police, became head of a military junta that would rule Chile for the next seventeen years. The violent repression used by the Pinochet regime to maintain power and transfo...
"When the army comes out, it is to kill."—Augusto Pinochet
Following his bloody September 1973 coup d''état that overthrew President Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Armed Forces and National Police, became head of a military junta that would rule Chile for the next seventeen years. The violent repression used by the Pinochet regime to maintain power and transfo...
