Ex-Chilean dictator Pinochet fights for life after heart attack
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year dictatorship carried out thousands of political killings and widespread torture, was fighting for his life in a hospital yesterday after a heart attack. But doctors said his condition was improving after an emergency procedure to restore blood flow to his heart.
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As former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet recovered on Sunday from a stroke, lawyers who brought human rights charges against him claimed his hospitalization was a ploy to avoid trial.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 91, the former Chilean dictator whose government murdered and tortured thousands during his repressive 17-year rule, died yesterday at a Santiago military hospital of complications from a heart attack, leaving incomplete numerous court cases that had sought to bring him to...
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Chile's former military ruler Augusto Pinochet is having medical tests to see if he is mentally fit to stand trial.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973-1990 and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday a week after suffering a heart attack, Chilean television reported.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his brutal 1973-1990 military rule and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday at 91 years old.
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FORMER Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was overnight today with a possible stroke, ahead of an expected court ruling on Tuesday on whether he should be tried in a human rights case.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Chile's democratically elected Marxist president in a bloody coup and ruled this Andean nation for 17 years, died Sunday, dashing hopes of victims of his regime's abuses that he would be brought to justice. He was 91.
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Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized early Sunday after suffering a heart attack and is in serious but stable condition, the Santiago Military Hospital said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, accused of murdering and kidnapping political opponents during his 17 years in power, suffered a heart attack on Sunday, a hospital source said.
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Chile's former military ruler General Augusto Pinochet has died at the age of 91, a Santiago hospital announces.
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FORMER Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet had regained consciousness a day after a stroke sent him to hospital for emergency treatment, doctors said overnight.
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SANTIAGO  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized after suffering a stroke, the Military Hospital of Santiago said in a statement.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet suffered a heart attack on Sunday and was given a bypass operation which his son said brought him back from the brink of death.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet remained stable but seriously ill following a heart attack over the weekend, his doctors said on Monday.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet was conscious and mobile but remained hospitalized after suffering a stroke, the Army Hospital said Sunday, while the former dictator's family insisted that he's too ill to be tried on human rights charges.
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How ironic: defense attorneys for Augusto Pinochet characterized the arrest order against the former Chilean tyrant as an abuse of human rights, alleging that the 89-year-old man cannot defend himself because of poor health.