Unconcerned, but not indifferent.

Man Ray, 1890 – 1976
Augusto Pinochet biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of General Augusto Pinochet

Author Name:

General Augusto Pinochet

Born As:

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte

Other Names:

Born:

25 Nov 1915

Died:

10 Dec 2006




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General, military dictator and President of Chile from 1973 to 1990                          
                          
Wife was Lucia Hiriart with whom he had five children: three daughters - Inés Lucía, María Verónica, Jacqueline Marie - and two sons - Augusto Osvaldo and Marco Antonio.

Lucía Pinochet Hiriart, Augusto Pinochet's eldest daughter, said the use of torture during his 1973–90 regime was "barbaric and without justification".                          
Professor at the War Academy in Chile.

Stating that Chile was under siege by communist subversives, Pinochet implemented a series of security operations in which, according to the Rettig Report, around 3,000 suspected or known dissidents and leftists were killed, and - according to the Valech Report - around 30,000 more were tortured.                          
At the time of his death in 2006, around 300 criminal charges in Chile were still pending against Pinochet for alleged human rights abuses and embezzlement during his rule.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, for example, thanked the General for "bringing democracy to Chile".

Augusto Pinochet was a Roman Catholic.

At the time of his death in 10 December, 2006, around 300 criminal charges were still pending against him in Chile for various human rights violations, tax evasion and embezzlement under his rule and afterwards, though he was never convicted of any crimes.  Pinochet was accused of having amassed a wealth of US$28 million or more.

In 2004, a United States Senate money laundering investigation led by Senators Carl Levin - D-MI and Norm Coleman - R-MN, ordered in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, uncovered a network of over 125 securities and bank accounts at Riggs Bank and other U.S. financial institutions used by Pinochet and his associates for twenty-five years to secretly move millions of dollars.