Sentence examples for Pinochet from high-quality English sources.

• General Augusto Pinochet took power.

• I visited Melocotón with Lucía Pinochet.

• Pinochet, he noted, was “very fond of her”.

• But in a 1988 plebiscite, an ample majority of Chileans voted against an attempt by General Pinochet to stay on as president for eight more years.

• “But we might need an economic Pinochet.’’

• “And all of this was done by the horrible Pinochet.”

• Pinochet was head of Chile’s military government (1974–90).

• Pinochet died free, and few of his foot soldiers have ever been prosecuted.

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• When Pinochet stepped down as Commander-in-Chief, he named his own successor.

• At one point, Pinochet wisecracks, “Boy, even dying this guy caused problems!”

• (Pinochet was the only foreign head of state to attend Franco’s funeral, in 1975.

• In June 1974 Pinochet assumed sole power as president, relegating the rest of the junta to an advisory role.

• Mr Lavin, an economist trained at the University of Chicago, held only minor government posts under General Pinochet.

• The church was respected for its staunch defence of human rights and the visit was used to rally opposition to Pinochet.

• As the date draws near, manoeuvring has intensified to try to free General Pinochet from his ten-month detention in Britain.

• In 2004 Chile issued an arrest warrant for Galvarino Apablaza, a founder of a Communist guerrilla group that fought against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

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• While visiting London, Pinochet was detained when Spain requested his extradition in connection with the torture of Spanish citizens in Chile during his dictatorship.

• In the past, accusations of fiscal impropriety have prompted strong reactions from Pinochet, who prides himself on being a man of simple tastes, and impeccably honest.

• To others, he is a criminal, an Augusto Pinochet without the economic achievement: “Worse than Pinochet,” says one government minister, “because he was the stooge of a foreign power.”

• Bell also worked for the Pinochet Foundation, which, in 1998, successfully campaigned against efforts to extradite Pinochet to Spain, where a judge had issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of torture and murder.