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. →Subscribe for new videos four times per week. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Visit our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M. Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com Other Biographics Videos: Frida Kahlo: World–Renowned Artist Who Overcame Polio https://youtu.be/FuhCy01YU3E Nikita Khrushchev – The Man Behind the Missile Crisis https://youtu.be/gjGLD8bx7Qo 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/
