Is it true what Contreras testified before the courts, that the president of the junta and later the president of the Republic was the direct head of… - Augusto Pinochet

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Is it true what Contreras testified before the courts, that the president of the junta and later the president of the Republic was the direct head of DINA? I don't remember, but it is not true. It is not true and if it was, I don't remember. Contreras liked to cajole, wrap around his boss. Contreras gave the orders. It was he who managed the institution.

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About Augusto Pinochet

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (November 25, 1915 – December 10, 2006) was a general and de facto head of state of Chile. He led a military junta to power in 1973 through a coup d'état, deposing the elected Socialist president Salvador Allende and establishing a military dictatorship.

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Alternative Names: Augusto Pinochet Ugarte Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte
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The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.

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