Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was born the son of a customs ... who encouraged his ambitions. The young Pinochet rose through the officer corps in an army based on Prussian traditions of discipline and ...

Oddly, his tour guide for several stops in Santiago was a gruff Army general named Augusto Pinochet. The two evidently sized each other up. In 1986, arms supplied by Cuba to an urban guerrilla group ...

On September 11, 1973, the army headed by General Augusto Pinochet launched a coup with the US' covert backing. Soldiers took over the presidential palace, ousting leftist President Salvador ...

Santiago - Two armoured Mercedes Benz cars once used by former dictator General Augusto ... Chile's army commander. President Patricio Aylwin, the elected civilian who succeeded Pinochet ...

A four-star Army general was suspended on Friday after the Department of Defense learned he allegedly pressured an assessment panel to sign off on an officer deemed “unfit for command.” ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --The Army has removed one of the nation's 12 four-star generals, Army Gen. Charles Hamilton, from command following an investigation that determined he interfered in a subordinate's ...

WASHINGTON — Army Secretary Christine Wormuth fired one of the service’s top generals after an inspector general investigation concluded he improperly intervened in a subordinate’s promotion ...