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 ...

Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WASHINGTON — An Army general has been suspended from his job for allegedly trying to use his power to influence the ...

Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured ... But he did not disappear and immediately became commander-in-chief of the Army until 1998 and later became a lifelong senator, a position ...

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 ...