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Chile Oregier Benavente, Augusto Pinochet's former personal helicopter pilot, has admitted that on numerous occasions he threw prisoners into the ocean or into the high peaks of the Andes. [ 23] Flights were also used to make bodies of already murdered dissidents disappear.
The Caravan of Death (Spanish: Caravana de la Muerte) was a Chilean Army death squad that, following the Chilean coup of 1973, flew by helicopters from south to north of Chile between September 30 and October 22, 1973.
Aug 7, 2000 · In October 1973, when Augusto Pinochet was making his mark on Chile, death rode a puma through the sky. The Puma helicopter carried a six-member army squad led by a general who was a special...
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[ A] (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.
Aug 5, 2023 · The remote spot was ideal for Augusto Pinochet’s secret police to board prisoners on to their fleet of Puma helicopters before flying out over the ocean, and casting them – still alive – into the water.
Sep 5, 2023 · The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism.
Sep 23, 2023 · A military coup attempt in June failed, but in August, the supportive "constitutionalist" commander-in-chief of the armed forces, General Carlos Prats, was replaced by General Augusto...
Aug 20, 2024 · Augusto Pinochet (born November 25, 1915, Valparaiso, Chile—died December 10, 2006, Santiago) was the leader of the military junta that overthrew the socialist government of Pres. Salvador Allende of Chile on September 11, 1973.
On 19 October 1973, a helicopter landed in our city. This was an army delegation under the command of General Sergio Arellano Stark, who was under personal orders from and invested by Augusto Pinochet with power to remove all political prisoners from the city and execute them.
Feb 27, 2023 · It was from there, just weeks after the military uprising of September 11, 1973, that a huge Puma helicopter took off, crammed with Chilean army officers on a mission entrusted to them by General Augusto Pinochet to ensure that Allende supporters who had already been given light sentences by local military courts in the south and north of the ...
