A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly

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A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly
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The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism.

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Statues of the faces of men who led the 1973 military coup against Chile’s late President Salvador Allende, from left to right, Jose Toribio Merino of the Navy, late dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Gustavo Leight of the Air Force and Cesar Mendoza of the police sit in a showcase along with other items in a museum exhibiting Pinochet’s memorabilia in Santiago, Dec. 12, 2008. The museum is sponsored by the Pinochet Foundation, made up of supporters and former aides to Pinochet, who died in 2006.

Members of the Disappeared Detainees Relatives Group of Chile hold cardboard cutouts depicting their disappeared relatives in a march commemorating the so-called “Operation Colombo” in which over a hundred dissidents were executed by security forces of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, in Santiago, Chile, July 22, 2023. Chile will mark the 50th anniversary the coup that brought Pinochet to power on Sept.

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