Augusto Pinochet: The Great Betrayal

Imagine, for a moment, that you were given the opportunity to become the most powerful person in your country. To get there, all you need to do is betray the very man who made you who you are. Would you demure, step back, say “thanks, but no thanks”? Or would you grab that opportunity with both hands? Nearly half a century ago, one man in Chile made the decision to betray everything for his own glory. His name was Augusto Pinochet.

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Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Morris M.
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris

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Source/Further reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/11/chile.pinochet4
(the rightwing view): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1536533/General-Augusto-Pinochet.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Augusto-Pinochet
https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-augusto-pinochet-2136135
Early years: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35048989
The coup: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/07/chile-coup-pinochet-allende
Caravan of death: https://www.chiletoday.cl/45-years-the-caravan-of-death-chiles-notorious-death-squad-remains-an-open-wound/
The Chicago Boys: https://slate.com/business/2016/01/in-chicago-boys-the-story-of-chilean-economists-who-studied-in-america-and-then-remade-their-country.html
Inequality in Chile: https://www.borgenmagazine.com/economic-inequality-in-chile/
1988 referendum: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-21563384
Operation Condor: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/exposing-the-legacy-of-operation-condor/
CIA involvement in Chile: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol47no3/html/v47i3a03p.htm
Numbers of killed and tortured: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-14584095
2018 convictions: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/pinochet-shadow-chile-beginning-recede-180828120451923.html
Villa Grimaldi and torture: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/09/life-under-pinochet-they-were-taking-turns-electrocute-us-one-after-other/

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