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130,000 people arrested and tortured. Came to power in 1974.

"Augusto Pinochet”
Britannica

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"The press was censored, Congress was dissolved, and the government implemented a terror campaign against Chilean leftists, in which, as later confirmed, more than 3000 people were executed or “disappeared” and many others were arrested or exiled, and frequently tortured."
(Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto)

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"The Christian Democratic, National, and Radical Democracy parties were declared to be in “indefinite recess,” and the Communists, Socialists, and Radicals were proscribed".
(Chile)

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"Popular discontent helped revive the Marxist-inspired Socialist and Communist parties and produced an electoral loss of the parties of the right that corresponded with the rise of those of the left".
(Chile)

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"In 1969 this cluster of parties and left-wing groups formed the Popular Unity (Unidad Popular) coalition, proposing as its presidential candidate Salvador Allende Gossens, a Socialist and an avowed Marxist; he was elected president in 1970".
(Chile)

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" In 1981 a new constitution, as well as an eight-year extension of Pinochet’s presidential term, was enacted after a tightly controlled plebiscite was held in 1980. The document included specific provisions for a transition to civilian government over the same eight-year period and mandated that a referendum be held in 1988 on whether the ruling junta’s president was to remain in office".
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"Cooper writes. "The only guns in the country, he vowed, would remain in the hands of the armed forces." So when generals whom Allende had promoted took the military into revolt, the left had no organized force with which to defend the government".
(Beatty)

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"In 1975 Pinochet's secret police were an evil fog blanketing Chilean society with fear".
(Beatty

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"The first phase of the dictatorship (1973-75) was mainly destructive, aimed at rapid demobilization, depoliticization, and stabilization. Immediately on seizing power, the military junta -- composed of the commanders in chief of the army, navy, air force, and national police -- issued a barrage of decrees to restore order on its own terms. (National Intelligence Directorate)

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" Their bodies were never found and they included a number of foreigners who were seen as leftists and a threat to Pinochet’s rule. It emerged years later that at least 150 civilians, most students or other young people, were taken alive aboard helicopters, drugged, weighed down by bits of railway track and tossed unceremoniously into the South Pacific near Valparaiso."
(Davison)

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" In the mid-1970's , the Pinochet regime also organized a network of secret police agencies (given the code name Operation Condor) that coordinated the repression of groups and individuals who had been identified as opponents of the military government of the Southern Cone ( Argentina, Brazil Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay). Condor's methods included secret surveillance, kidnapping, torture, and terrorist attacks".
(Genocide and Persecution Chile 25)

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"Chile was pariah state, violated human rights and Pinochet lead the killing of those opposing him, authorizes a death squad lead by General Sergio Arellano to ' expedite justice" , killing those who belonged to Allende's previous regime. Arellano set out to shot selected prisoners in the middle of the night and in four days killed 68 civilians, only by communal leadership roles under Allende's regime, not so big problem, known as "Caravan of Death".
Genocide and Persecution Chile 27-28).

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" The members leading the executions police force was called the Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA."
(Genocide and Persecution:Chile) 28)

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"Between 1974 and 1977 DINA expanded into a massive, instutionalized force of repression, terrorizing Chilean society at every level".
(Genocide and Persecution 28)

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"Before she was sexually tortured she was injected with an unknown substance in the right cupital fossa [inner elbow]. (She could not tell who gave her the injection). She was also injected in the right elbow."
(Genocide and Persecution 61

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This is the account of an anonymous woman, age 19 who was training to be a social worker and arrested in Santiago 1981. She has heavily abused and tortured for around 17 days, physically and mentally and sexually abused.
(Genocide and Persecution Chile 59-61)

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“His junta was widely condemned for its harsh suppression of dissent, although its reversal of the Allende government’s socialist policies resulted in a lower rate of inflation and an economic boom between 1976 and 1979.”
(Augusto Pinochet Britannica)

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“First, marxist regimes influence and revolutionary ideas had to be combated with the media ( unions, universities, student movements) to convert millions of chilenas  ( poor farmers, indigenous people,  barrack habitants, etc.) “
(Labrousse 143)

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“On Sept.11, 1973, the military overthrew the government. As jets and troops attacked the presidential palace, Allende reportedly committed suicide rather that surrender and resign
( Monteon 470)

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Alongside Salvador Allende was Pablo Neruda, the vice-president and president of the Communist Party. He is one of the most recognized XX century latin american poets and Nobel Peace Prize poets.(Biography.com Editors)

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He had colon cáncer, but many believe he was poisoned due to Pinochets's coming to power, and he dies just days afte rthe overthrow of Allende. (Biography.com Editors)

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“Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto”. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. 2018. Chicago.

World Book Inc. 2018

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"Chile." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 26 Apr. 2018.

academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Chile/106240#25275.toc. Accessed 28 Mar. 2019.

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Beatty, Jack. “Pinochet and Me ” Atlantic; Jan2001, Vol. 287 Issue 1, p86-88, 3p. Atlantic Media Publishing.     (a book by Mark Cooper)

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"National Intelligence Directorate".  FAS Intelligence Resource Program. July 2004. https://fas.org/irp/world/chile/dina.htm. Accessed Mar 28, 2019.

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"Davison, Phil “General Manuel Contreras: Chilean secret-police chief who was Augusto Pinochet's right-hand man during the dictator’s brutal regime” Independent. Sat. Aug 15, 2014.www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/general-manuel-contreras-chilean-secret-police-chief-who-was-augusto-pinochets-right-hand-man-during-10456843.html. Accessed Mar 28, 2019.

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“Genocide and Persecution: Chile”  David Erik Nelson.Gale Cengage Learning. Greenhaven Press 2014.

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“Latin America’s left: a 40 year timeline” The Guardian. Mar 10, 2013 www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/10/latin-america-left-40-year-timeline. Accessed Apr. 1, 2019.

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Monteon, Michael. “Chile” World Book Encyclopaedia. Vol 3. 2013.

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"Life Under Pinochet: “They were taking turns to electrocute us one after the other”". Amnesty International. Sept 11, 2013. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/09/life-under-pinochet-they-were-taking-turns-electrocute-us-one-after-other/. Accessed Apr.1, 2019

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"“They would teach them how to interrogate, how to apply the electricity, where and for how long. When they were torturing me, I went into my own world - it was as if I was looking down on myself - like it wasn’t happening to me. It was brutal,” she said [Lelia Perez, a tortured woman durong the Pinochet regime.

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Lelia was arrested alongside 10 others in Estadio Chile, as guinea pigs for torture according to Life Under Pinochet.
(Life under Pinochet: “They were taking turns to electrocute us one after the other”)

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“I was forced to wear the clothes of people we had seen being killed. There was a curfew and the few people around just walked away from us. The street was full of brothels and the sex workers took me in. They bathed me and gave me clothes. I went in the stadium as a 16-year-old and left as a 60-year-old.”
(Life under Pinochet: “They were taking turns to electrocute us one after the other”)

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According to Lelia,she spent five days there, but when she came out, she didn't recognize how much change and reforms Pinochet had made.
(Life Under Pinochet)

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She was arrested again two years later (1975) by the DINA and taken to Villa Grimaldi, where "detainees would be electrocuted, water boarded, had their heads forced into buckets of urine and excrement, suffocated with bags, hanged by their feet or hands and beaten. Many women were raped and for some detainees, punishment was death. (Life under Pinochet)

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"LA TV CHILENA EL DIA 11 SEPTIEMBRE 1973" YouTube. Aug 31, 2015 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRwAL1NcYcw

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Augusto Pinochet and his regime was against the leftist wing, marxist, communist, regimes. But his regime was facist and doing the same as a regime such as Hitler or Musolinni would have had.

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On Tuesday 11th of September, 1973. The Pinochet followers and tanks bomb out the presidential house. The national TV is cut and only a one called Canal 13 isn't cut.
(LA TV CHILENA EL DIA 11 SEPTIEMBRE 1973)

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The medias could only announce and do what the Comunication Department sent, they couldn't go out on their own and expose what was being done, so the medias are being cut with information the government wants the people to know, filtering their information. Everything was rechecked and analyzed by the military before public disposition.
(LA TV CHILENA EL DIA 11 SEPTIEMBRE 1973)

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The military burned all tapes, left ideology propaganda and related stuff to it, etc. without the media's consent, and it was a mass burn of things.
(LA TV CHILENA EL DIA 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE 1973)

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Biography.com Editors "Pablo Neruda Biography" Biography. A&E Television Networks.Apr. 2, 2014.  www.biography.com/people/pablo-neruda-9421737. Accessed Apr. 1, 2019

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"Money won't compensate for my torture in Chile. Leopoldo Garcia Lucero" The Guardian. Sun Nov. 10, 2013.www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/10/money-will-not-compensate-torture-chile-Pinochet. Accessed Apr.1, 2019.

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“The Allende government approved the sharp increases in the minimum wage at the same time that it tried to prevent price increases in consumer goods”. (Monteon 470)

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“Inflation soared  from about 20 percent in 1971 by more than 350 percent in 1973” (Monteon 470).

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“In 1980, a new constitution was approved in a plebiscite (vote of the people) controlled by Pinochet”. (Monteon 470).

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“Under the new change of laws, presidential powers were greatly expanded, and the military’s role in government was formally established”. (Monteon 470)

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According to Monteon, the Chilean economy had a breakdown in 1982-83, strikes and demonstrations threaten Pinochet and his regime, but things get steady again later due to the renowned governments not letting Pinochet leave power until the economy got better (Monteon 470)

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This is a imgae nside the Chile Stadium, when the eversl military took several civilians captive.

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http://files.amnesty.org/images/news/ChileFeature2.jpg

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This is the account of Leopoldo Garcia Lucero, a captive, "On 16 September 1973, five days after the military coup that toppled President Salvador Allende, I was seized by the military police in a street in Santiago, Chile's capital. I think they took me because I was a member of the Socialist party and close to Allende. (Money won't compensate for my torture in Chile)

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Leopoldo was first tortured in the pólice station ,then the national museum and during his tortures, he was blindfolded and handcuffed most of the time, according to him in his account for The Guardian. (The Guardian)

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"I was beaten on my head and body countless times; they broke my arm in several places after smashing it with a rifle and I almost lost an eye; they held my head under cold water and electrocuted me; they kicked me in my testicles, burned me with cigarettes and suspended me by a hook with weights on my legs. I heard of people being executed by firing squads".
(Money won't comensate for my torture in Chile)

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The police interogated him because he was close to Allende, so they wanted information and tortured him to spill it out, but he refused to do so, according to Leopoldo.
(Money won't compensate for my torture in Chile)

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I didn't know if my family members were dead or alive for eight months. I spent almost two years in several concentration camps. In June 1975, I was expelled from Chile by a government decree. I received refugee status in the UK, and my wife and three daughters joined me in exile". (Money won't compensate for my torture in Chile).

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Leopoldo was paid 20,000 English pounds by the Chilean government "for lack of justice in his case", since he went to Redress for them to adress his torure case to the authorities, but he isn't satisfied with this, he was left both emotionally and physically damaged. (Money won't compensate for my torture in Chile).

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Pinochet came to power on September 11,1973, with the help of the US-suppoted military coup, to overthwor the marxist Allende. (remember that the US was basically wanting to erase communisms and marxism, posible alliances to the Soviet Unión, and many counties during this time had ideas appealing those of communism and leftism.
(Genocide and Persecution: Chile, 26)

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According to the book Genocide and Persecution:Chile, in the following six weeks following the Allende overthrow, around  1,500 civilians were killed,[according to the US inteligence reports) 320-360 summarirly executed, 13,500 chileans and outsiders were stopped and arrested, sent to detention camps. (Genocide and Persecution:Chile 27)

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"During his seventeen-year rule, Chile became a pariah state, internationally condemned for ongoing, systematic violations of human rights". (Geocide and Persecution: Chile 27)

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"He radically changed Chile's economy to promote capitalism. He cut government spendings and social subsidies, lowered tariffs, and opened Chilean markets to massive imports". (Monteon 470

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The wages fell, tindustreis had to close and there was famine. The private industry grew though and it thrived between 1976-1981. (Monteon 470

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In the 1980, the new Constitution allows gradual return to democratic Chilean government in new decade to come (Monteon 469).

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"President Allende appoints General Augusto Pinochet as commander-in-chief of the Chilean army.
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"A campaign of political repression carried out by US-backed Latin American dictatorships in the 70s and 80s that was designed to eliminate tens of thousands of leftwing activists."
(Latin Americas's left: a 40 year timeline)

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"It was the idea of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who enlisted Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil"
(Latin America's left: a 40 years timeline