Word: augusto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third such protest in as many months, it was unmistakable evidence that many Chileans can no longer tolerate the repressive regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. The two earlier protests drew larger crowds, but people were free to take to the streets then. Last week's outbreak occurred in the face of a major government crackdown...
Similar scenes occurred throughout Chile last Tuesday, when a peaceful "Day Of Protest" suddenly turned ugly. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to express their unhappiness with the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. The government cracked down amid scenes of violence that were the worst in almost ten years. When it was over, three people were dead, including a 14-year-old boy, hundreds were injured, and more than 1,300 had been arrested in ten cities...
...worst outbreak of violence Chile had seen since the brutal overthrow of Marxist President Salvador Allende by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet 9½ years ago. It began last Wednesday as a peaceful Day of Protest over the country's desperate economic straits and quickly flared into widespread rioting. Three hundred police and militia fought about 1,500 protesters for control of downtown Santiago. By Thursday authorities had finally restored order, but at a tragic price: two civilians had been killed, 150 protesters were injured and 600 arrested...
Until recently such an open challenge to the stern regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte would have been unthinkable. A notoriously repressive dictator, Pinochet has regularly silenced his opposition with torture, killings and exile. In the 9½ years since he took power in the bloody coup that overthrew Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, Pinochet has also maintained control by bringing remarkable prosperity to the Andean nation. But Chile's economic miracle may have run its course. After a booming 7.3% average yearly expansion of the economy from 1977 to 1981, Chile suffered a catastrophic 13% negative growth rate...
...logistical assistance from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Yet, by Western diplomatic estimates, only 2,000 to 3,000 rebels were involved in the insurgency, far too few to oust the increasingly unpopular Marxist-led Sandinista government, which is named after a Nicaraguan nationalist rebel of the 1930s, Augusto César Sandino, and took power in 1979 after the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle...