Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, was dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990 and Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army from 1973 to 1998. He was also president of the Government Junta of Chile between 1973 and 1981...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth25 November 1915
CountryChile
memories reflection government
I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973.... These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.
rights issues oblivion
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
blood democracy sometimes
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
giving people wealth
The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
country trying chile
The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
succeed election dictator
I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
dictator stills governing
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
responsibility goal political
Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration.... I assume full political responsibility for what happened.
country moving leafs
Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it.
men law dictator
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
faces dictator sour
My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
military people political
The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.
christian cutting rome
Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
spiritual doe moral
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.