Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean military leader who was born in Valparaiso in 1915. He led a military junta that overthrew the Chilean government in 1973 and ruled the nation with an authoritarian regime until 1990. During his rule, Pinochet moved the Chilean economy towards a free market system and privatized hundreds of state-controlled industries.
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💰 Net worth: $16 Million (2024)
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About
Leader of the military junta that overthrew Chile's government in 1973 and came to govern the nation with an iron fist until 1990. He moved the Chilean economy towards the free market and privatized hundred of state-controlled industries.
Before Fame
He ran a communist-eradication program in Chile, leading the army on massive crackdowns on political offenders real and imagined.
Trivia
He was arrested in 1998 in England on human rights charges, and the case stirred worldwide controversy, though Pinochet was already in frail health.
Family Life
He had two sons and three daughters with his wife Maria Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez.
Associated With
In 2003 then-Secretary of State Colin Powell called the American support for Pinochet a moment in American history he is not proud of.