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
rights issues oblivion
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
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.
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.
dictator
I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.
real dictator
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
poor
I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
political prison exile
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.