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- Birth nameAugusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte
- Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 - 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of the Republic by the junta in 1974 and becoming the DE Facto dictator of Chile, and from 1981 to 1990 as DE Jure President after a new Constitution, which confirmed him in the office, was approved by a referendum in 1980.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean general and politician who ruled as dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the President of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, before being declared President of the Republic by the junta in 1974.
Pinochet had been promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army by Salvador Allende on 23 August 1973, having been its General Chief of Staff since early 1972. In December 1974, the ruling military junta appointed Pinochet Supreme Head of the nation by joint decree.
Pinochet's military government implemented economic liberalization, including currency stabilization, removed tariff protections for local industry, banned trade unions and privatized social security and hundreds of state-owned enterprises. These policies produced high economic growth, but critics state that economic inequality dramatically increased and attribute the devastating effects of the 1982 monetary crisis on the Chilean economy to these policies. For most of the 1990s, Chile was the best-performing economy in Latin America.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpouseLucía Hiriart(January 29, 1943 - December 10, 2006) (his death, 5 children)
- Children
- During his 17 year dictatorship, over 5,000 Chileans were murdered and countless numbers of others tortured or imprisoned.
- Father of Augusto Pinochet Jr..
- President of Chile (1974-1990).
- 16 October 1998 Was detained and put in house arrest during a visit to London, England, on human rights crimes charges. Remained in house arrest in England until 2 March 2000, when he returned to Chile, after a long judicial process that became a pilot case for determining human rights crimes of former dictators.
- Has vascular dementia.
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