leaves an immense mark on our hearts," her granddaughter, who goes as Karina Pinochet on Twitter

Pinochet has angered her." The coup totally destroyed our family and we were never the same," Garcia

He is marginally behind in opinion polls. Although softly spoken, Kast promises a tough approach on crime and a streamlined state.... That chimes with some voters, who still admire the former dictator." If he were alive he would vote for me," he told local newspaper La Tercera in 2017 when campaigning then-unsuccessfully-to be president.... " I am a direct and frank person, but I am always respectful."( Reporting by Natalia Ramos; Additional reporting by Sarah Marsh in Berlin; Editing by Adam

“ You didn’t see as many robberies.” A July poll by the Center for Public Studies, a Chile-based foundation, found that 66% of respondents agreed with the statement that rather than worry about the rights of individuals, the country needs a firm government.... 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. because it was the date of the 1973 coup in the South American country.... He argued that his economic wellbeing improved under the right-wing military government “ because there was order, employm

Listen 8 min Share Comment on this story Comment At the edge of Sheridan Circle in Northwest Washington sits a tree stump crowned with an engraved stone disk.... ArrowRight Fifty years ago this month, on Sept.... 11, 1973, Chile’s armed forces, backed by the CIA, staged a brutal coup that overthrew the democratically elected socialist government in Santiago....

Augusto Pinochet, who ruled from 1973 to 1990. His four-year term begins at a moment when a

COVID-19 has battered economies, souring many on traditional leadership.... Augusto Pinochet. Since

Jose Kast ran for president in 2017, coming in fourth place, saying then that if Pinochet were

admires Pinochet’s rule, ran on a socially conservative, anti-immigrant and tax-cutting agenda

lawyer who has defended the legacy of military dictator Augusto Pinochet. Chile, the world's top