Word: augusto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus did the regime of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte prepare for a planned two-day protest against the Chilean President's rule, which was toughened by a state of siege declared on Nov. 6. The display of weaponry exceeded the response to previous street demonstrations, which have cost the lives of at least 110 civilians in the past 18 months. Last week's show of muscle was preceded by a campaign of intimidation at nearly every civilian level. Police made scores of arrests of leftist political and labor leaders. A government spokesman informed foreign newsmen that their credentials...
...them, handcuffed or with hands behind their heads, to dark green military buses that took them to a nearby soccer stadium for interrogation. The scene was an eerie reminder of the mass arrests that occurred in the wake of the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, 68, to power in 1973, which has been depicted in the 1982 film Missing. Although the majority of those rounded up last week were later released, at least 227 remained in detention along with 312 others banished for 90 days to remote camps for "internal exiles...
Chile's President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, 68, was opening an international trade fair in suburban Santiago when less than 600 feet away a bomb ripped up a lengthy section of railroad track. No one was injured in the blast, which was one of at least 19 in the capital and four other Chilean cities last week. That explosive epidemic capped a new political offensive by opponents of the eleven-year-old Pinochet regime...
...times last year and once in late March, opponents of the authoritarian regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte have held demonstrations. Each time, the protests have ended in bloodshed, with a total of at least 110 dead. Last week the broad-based opposition tried another approach: as part of its effort to provoke a national strike, it called on Chileans to assemble in city and town squares to sing the national anthem and then quickly disperse. Pinochet was in no mood for music. Even before the singing had begun in Santiago's main square, police equipped with submachine guns...
...Chilean weapons industry is an indirect result of the arms embargo that the U.S. imposed on the South American nation in 1976. That was the same year that Chilean secret-police agents in Washington, D.C., murdered Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean Defense Minister whom the government of Dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte disliked for his criticism of its human rights violations. When Chile almost went to war with Argentina in 1978 over ownership of three islands in the Beagle Channel, near the continent's southern tip, the Chilean government urged private industry to become involved in defense contracting. One firm...