Pinochet

/ ˈpiːnəˌʃeɪ uˈɡɑːteɪ; ˈpiːnəˌʃeɪ /

noun

1. Pinochet UgarteAugusto19152006MChileanMILITARY: generalPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: head of state Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial

Example Sentences

Doubtless Hayek did not have many encounters with the relatives of the roughly 3.000 people murdered by the Pinochet regime.

From Salon

They praise dictators such as Francisco Franco, who overthrew the Spanish Republic in the 1930s, and Augusto Pinochet, who led a coup in Chile in 1973 and "disappeared" thousands of his opponents, The New York Times reported.

From Salon

In Chile, Pinochet was ousted thanks to a 1988 national referendum and lived his last years as an international pariah, even spending 503 days under house arrest in the U.K. on charges of “genocide and terrorism that include murder.”

From Salon

His favorite joke is one about buying his political enemies tickets on “Pinochet Air,” a reference to the late Chilean dictator whose regime threw dissenters from helicopters midair.

From Slate

After supporting Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973, the CIA played a central role in Operation Condor, an alliance between right-wing military governments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia, to hunt down tens of thousands of their own and each other’s political opponents and dissidents, killing and disappearing at least 60,000 people.

From Salon