Operation Condor

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Chapters: Henry Kissinger, Montoneros, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, Cyrus Vance, Alfredo Stroessner, Augusto Pinochet, Forced disappearance, Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial, Ed Koch, Strategy of tension, Jorge Rafael Videla, Kenneth Maxwell, School of the Americas Watch, Otto Reich, Valech Report, Caravan of Death, Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, Saul Landau, Villa Baviera, Ananías Maidana, Organización Primero de Marzo, Villa Grimaldi, Juan Guzmán Tapia, Robert White, Death flights, Martín Almada, Batallón de Inteligencia 601, Archives of Terror, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Rettig Report, Operation Colombo, Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, Peter Kornbluh, Bernardo Leighton, IPresent!, John Dinges, Operation Toucan, Hugo Cores. Excerpt: Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 ¿ 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army general and leader of a military dictatorship that assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973. Among his titles, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1974 and President of the Republic from 1974 until transferring power to a democratically elected president in 1990. By early 1972, Pinochet was answering to General Chief of Staff of the Army. In 23 August 1973, he was ascended to Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army by president Salvador Allende. On 11 September 1973, Pinochet led a coup d'état which overthrew Allende's democratically elected socialist government. In December 1974, the military junta appointed Pinochet as President by a joint decree, with which Air Force General Gustavo Leigh disagreed. From the beginning, the government implemented harsh measures against its political opponents. According to various reports and investigations 1,200¿3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 were interned, and up to 30,000 were tortured by his regime including women and children. The new government also implemented economic reforms, including the privatization of several state-controlled industries and the rollback of many state welfare institutions. These policies produced what has been referred to as the "miracle of Chile", but the government policies dramatically increased economic inequality and some attribute the devastating effect of the 1982 monetary crisis in the Chilean economy precisely to these policies. Pinochet's economic policies were continued and strengthened by successive governments after 1990. Chile is now the best-performing economy in Latin America, though academics continue to dispute the legacy of Pinochet's reforms. Pinochet's regime was given a legal framework through a highly controversial plebiscite in 1980, which approved a new Constitution drafted by a go