Augusto Pinochet: A Military Officer In Chile

5.Constable, Pamela, and Arturo Valenzuela. A Nation of Enemies Chile Under Pinochet. Boston: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Print.

Compare and contrast the manners in which two authoritarian leaders [Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet] established and maintained their rule during their respective reigns.

In 1989 under the George H.W Bush administration the United States was involved in war with Panama. In December of that year, the United States Military invaded Panama to overthrow Manuel Noriega, the military dictator of the country. Manuel Noriega was accused of drug trafficking in the United States and also abolished democracy in Panama. He also harmed the stability of the United Nations. Before Noriega was accused of such actions, he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in the attempt to assist the U.S in the plan to reduce communism in Central America. He worked for the United States and then removed from the CIA because of his affiliation with drug trafficking. Then he was brought back to the side of the United

On the night of May 30, 1960, Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo was killed. He was shot to death on a highway in the capital city. This event set off a chain reaction over the next five years. The United States has been a partner in the assassination of Trujillo that helped climb to power.

The Chilean dictatorship was led by Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990 (). Gender inequality from the Chilean dictatorship was shown very accurately in the movie Missing (1982). In the movie we follow an American woman named Beth searching for her journalist husband Charlie in Chile during the 1980s. At the end of the movie we find out that Beth never finds Charlie and that he is most likely being tortured or has died at the hands of the Chilean government. This was a common occurrence in Chile during this time, as seen in the movie when Beth and Ed, Charlie’s dad, search for Charlie in different morgues and hospitals (Gavras, 1982). While people of all races were being targeted by the government, Americans were targeted more for three reasons. Firstly, Americans were foreigners in Chile, which made the government more suspicious of them than other citizens. Secondly, many Americans in Chile at the time were journalists like Charlie. The Chilean dictatorship was very specific with its media and wanted to censor anything related to their government. This made them extra strict with American journalists. Lastly, Americans were considered the minority in Chile at the time, thus making them more susceptible to discrimination and segregation. In Argentina, Juan Peron led the dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. During this time many people were taken by the Argentinian

The investigation, which evaluates the tactics used by the CIA and of the 40 committee, delves into how the president of Chile, Salvador Allende, was refrained from gaining political power and the tactics used to destabilize the government after his election in 1970, this evaluation will try to answer the question: To what extent was the involvement of the United States government and the CIA responsible for the downfall of Salvador Allende?

The US irrevocably changed the history of Chile through its intervention in the 1970’s. The intervention destroyed decade’s worth of potential development in Chile (not to mention the deaths of thousands due to installing a murderous dictator), to keep communism out of the Chile, and protect United States business interests. The United States’ interest in a potential intervention in Chile began in 1970, the year Salvador Allende was elected the Chilean President. Allende was a leftist candidate from the Socialist Party of Chile whom Nixon suspected of potentially turning communist. Allende made critical remarks about the United States’ involvement in Latin America, especially their failed invasion of Cuba, the Bay of Pigs. This, combined with

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who became the head of the military regime in nineteen, seventy-three is also considered another modern day tyrant. Like Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin, Augusto Pinochet abused human rights and was very unfair to certain types of people. Along with Augusto Pinochet, Pol Pot of Cambodia led the Khmer Rouge in nineteen, sixty-three, until he ended that career and became a general secretary for the Communist Party of Kampuchea in nineteen, eighty-one. Kim Jong Il, from North Korea is also a very well known tyrant. Kim Jong il longed and strived for complete control and power over the country because he was ashamed of his weak military. Kim Jomg il served as highest of power of North Korea from nineteen, twenty-two to nineteen, fifty-three. When Adolf Hitler took power in the nineteen-thirties, he personally established concentration camps, persecuting Jews and other groups that he did not consider the “perfect race”, also starting World War II. Augusto Pinochet, tortured more than thirty-thousand people and killed over two-thousand innocent people. Pol Pot, who ruled over Cambodia from nineteen, seventy-five to nineteen, seventy-nine, killed more

The CIA used Chilean media to perpetuate a smear campaign against Allende and encouraged a coup against the communist government that made the conditions ripe for a coup. After the coup, General Pinochet was a close U.S. ally up until the Carter administration. President Carter, who made human rights as the driving force behind his foreign policy, distanced himself from Pinochet because of alleged human rights violations conducted by Pinochet’s regime.

At the end of the World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged from the war as the world’s two leading superpowers. In the post war world, the U.S. and the Soviet Union both engaged in a Cold War aiming to have the most influence around the globe through the spread of their respective ideologies (communism and capitalism) and political systems (representative democracy and socialism). One particular place where this struggle for influence was seen was Latin America, specifically Chile, which faced the possibility of a democratically elected Marxist president by the name of Salvador Allende. The U.S. assumed that Allende, having communist ideals, would install a totalitarian government in Chile similar to that of Stalin’s regime if he was to be elected into office. The U.S also viewed Allende as a threat to U.S national security because his presidency in Chile could create a “domino effect,” whereby the fall of one Latin American country to communism would lead to the fall of countries elsewhere in the Americas, which was a major threat to the United States considering its proximity to Chile and other Latin American countries. Thus, the United States sent its CIA to Chile in order to prevent Allende’s ascendancy to the presidential seat in Chile by any means necessary, even if those means contradicted U.S principles such as the right of a free press, constitutionality, free elections, and peace.

Chile’s economy was effectively owned by US corporation’s, and these corporation’s controlled the country's resources. When Allende nationalized copper the two main American corporation were financially hurt severely and lost a lot of profit. This concerned the US and Nixon worried that Chile was falling under soviet control and communism. One of Nixon’s fears was that the Soviets would have total control in Americas backyard. However, the major reason that the US instigated the overthrow was because the corporations did not want Chile to take over their own resources and use them for their own benefit. The corporations were able to exercise leverage over Allende because Chile was in the middle of an economic depression and Chile was receiving loans from American banks. Once Allende was in power these loans were stopped by US foreign policy and of course Chile suffered economically . At this point,

The investigation assesses the significant contribution of the United States, with a general focus on the CIA, to Salvador Allende’s political downfall. To adequately evaluate the involvement of the United States and the CIA, this investigation emphasizes the multiple measures and operations taken through distinctive cases of economic plots, operations track 1 and 2, as well as the infiltration into Chilean political and military factions. This investigation strives to answer the question: How did the United States and the CIA significantly contribute to the political downfall of Salvador Allende?

In 1972 he became the leader of the country after the CIA backed coup in 1973 and kept control of the military and the country during his reign. Augusto Pinochet created an absolute dictatorship over his people through controlling all aspects of society, creating a cult of leader, and terrorizing his people through use of kidnap and torture. Imagine not having the right to wear pants if you were a women or the

Francisco Franco was a dictator that ruled between 1892 and 1975 (History.com). He was in the military for most of his life and was a well-respected army man. He came to power during the Spanish Civil War, and he did not fall from power by any means other than death. Francisco Franco was devoted to the army and Spain, was an influential dictator, had many supporters and critics, and did not fall from power while he was still alive. (Biography.com)

Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte also known as Augusto Pinochet was born on November 25, 1915 in Valparaiso, Chile, and died on December 10, 2006 in Santiago, Chile. He was a murderous Dictator who ruled in Chile from 1973 to 1990. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army from 1973 to 1998 and president of the Government Junta of Chile between 1973 and 1981. Pinochet managed to attain full power by overthrowing Salvador Allende, a socialist government, by using military force. His years in power were defined by inflation and poverty leaving behind a legacy of abuse that took successive government years to catalogue. Numerous years after Pinochet stepped down, he was charged with several crimes from the time when he was president,