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1915–2006 Chile
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (November 25, 1915 – December 10, 2006) was a general and de facto head of state of Chile. He led a military junta to power in 1973 through a coup d'état, deposing the elected Socialist president Salvador Allende and establishing a military dictatorship.
Also known as: Pinochet
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We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.
The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
The country is safe, because we have a good intelligence service.
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
This is not a dictadura [dictatorship/hard rule] but a dictablanda [soft rule].
I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
My library is filled with UN condemnations.
I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!
I have a sour face. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures.
Tell my friends to get me out of here.
I am going to die. The person who succeeds me also would die. But elections, you won't have.
The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.
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