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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...