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Birth
Augusto pinochet was born Valparaiso Chile on November 25 1915. He is the son of Augusto Pinochet Vera and Avelina Ugarte Martinez.He first went to a school in Valparaiso, but then went to military school in Santiago which he entered in 1931. -
graduated
In 1935, after four years of study, he graduated with the rank of alferez in the infantry. In September 1937, Pinochet was assigned to the Chacabuco Regiment, in Concepcion. Two years later, in 1939, then with the rank of Sub-lieutenant, he moved to the Maipo Regiment, garrisoned in Valparaiso. He returned to Infantry School in 1940. -
married
On the 30th of January 1943, Augusto Pinochet married Lucia Hiriart Rodriguez, which they had five children: Ines Lucia, Maria Veronica, Jacqueline Marie, Augusto Osvaldo, and Marco Antonio. -
War Academy
By late 1945 Pinochet had been assigned to the "Carampangue" Regiment in the northern city of Iquique. Three years later, he entered the War Academy but had to postpone his studies because, being the youngest officer, he had to carry out a service mission in the coal zone of Lota.In 1951 he teached at the military school and at the same time, he worked as a teachers' aide at the War Academy, giving military geography and geopolitics classes. -
editor of the institutional magazine
Pinochet was also the editor of the institutional magazine Cien Aguilas (One Hundred Eagles). At the beginning of 1953, with the rank of major, he was sent for two years to the Rancagua Regiment in Arica. While there, he was appointed professor of the Chilean War Academy, and returned to Santiago to take up his new position. -
Form of the military mission
In 1956 Pinochet and a group of young officers were chosen to form a military mission to collaborate in the organization of the War Academy of Ecuador in Quito. He remained with the Quito mission for three-and-a-half years, during which time he studied geopolitics,military geography and military intelligence.At the end of 1959 he returned to Chile and was sent to General Headquarters of the 1st Army Division, based in Antofagasta. -
30th president of Chile
On December 17 1974, Augusto became the 30th president of Chile.
On september 11 1980 he organized a plebiscite to ratify a new constitution, replacing the 1925 Constitution drafted during Arturo Alessandri presidency.The Constitution was promulgated on 21 October 1980, taking effect on 11 March 1981. -
Left the office and house arrest
On March 11 1990 Augusto left the office and continued to serve as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army until 10 March 1998, when he retired and became a senator-for-life in accordance with his 1980 Constitution.But soon later on a visit to london he got arrested on the 10 of October 1998 in connection with numerous human rights allegations he was let out early due to ill-heath and returned to chile in 2000.But when he got back to chile, in 2004 and was put on house arrest. -
dicted for kidnappings
In January 2005, the Chilean Army accepted institutional responsibility for past human rights abuses.Also, in 2006 he was in dicted for kidnappings and torture in at the Villa Grimaldi detention center by judge Alejandro Madrid , as well as for the 1995 assassination of the DINA biochemist Eugenio Berrios, himself involved in the Letelier case. -
death and funeral
On the morning December 3 2006 Augusto pinochet died of a heart attack and subsequently the same day he was given the last rites.In a government decision, he was not granted a state funeral, an honor normally bestowed upon all those who had been presidents of Chile.The government also refused to declare an official national day of mourning, but it did authorize flags at military barracks to be flown at half staff. Pinochet's coffin was also allowed to be draped in a Chilean flag.funeral took pl
