Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean army general who led a coup d'état that overthrew Salvador Allende's socialist government in Chile in 1973. He ruled Chile as a dictator until 1990.
Think of Augusto Pinochet as a chess player who forcefully removes the king (Allende) from the board and then controls all the other pieces according to his own rules, not allowing any opposition moves.
Coup d'État: A sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
Dictatorship: A form of government where one person or party has absolute power, without effective constitutional limitations.
Salvador Allende: The first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections; he was overthrown by Pinochet's military coup in 1973.
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