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| Pinochet family arrested |
| Santiago de Chile, 05.10.2007 |
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| Oct. 5 - Chilean authorities arrest members of Pinochet family for embezzlement of public funds.
The widow and five children of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were arrested as part of an investigation into allegations he stole $27 million of public funds and hid it in foreign banks. Court officials said Judge Carlos Cerda also ordered the arrest of a further 17 people including retired military officers from the Pinochet era, friends, associates and the former leader's personal secretary.
Penny Tweedie reports.
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![Foto : Ilustration
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (November 25, 1915 – December 10, 2006) was President of Chile as a military dictator [2] from 1974 to 1990, and head of the military junta from 1973 to 1974. His rule instituted broad economic reforms and a severe and highly controversial campaign against leftist political parties, including repression of civilian population.
On September 11, 1973, Pinochet, recently appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, headed a coup d'état against Socialist President Salvador Allende and established a military government. Pinochet implemented a series of military operations in which (according to the 1993 Rettig Report) approximately 3,000 people are known to have been killed [3], while (according to the 2004 Valech Report) 27,000 were incarcerated without trials and subjected to torture [4]. Thousands more fled in exile, in particular in Argentina, as political refugees; however, they were followed in their exile by the DINA secret police, in the frame of Operation Condor which linked South American dictatorships together against political opponents. Pinochet was famous for saying](/foto//f_00703_m.jpg)