Pinochet in Dark Glasses — an American-backed Thuggish Autocrat
It was a time when most of South America was ruled by dictators, and an archetypal example of them was Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, who cemented his image as a thuggish autocrat very early on in his reign, which began with an American-backed coup which deposed Salvador Allende 1973. On September 18, six days after the … Read more