was augusto pinochet elected?
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NO!!!! He had the elected President, Salvador Allende, killed to become president. He was a bloody dictator. Thousands and thousands of chileans were killed. Even in Washington, DC, chilean militarys killed their oppositors (check http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/chile/)
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The area of present Argentina was sparsely populated until it was colonized by Europeans. The native people known as Diaguita lived in northwestern Argentina on the edge of the expanding Inca Empire; the Guaraní lived farther east.\n\nEuropeans arrived in 1502. Spain established a permanent colony on the site of Buenos Aires in 1580, and the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1776. In 1806 and 1807 The British Empire invaded the Viceroyalty, but the creole population managed to repel the invasions. On May 25, 1810, after the confirmation of the rumors about the overthrowing of King Ferdinand VII by Napoleon, the most prominent citizens of Buenos Aires took advantage of the situation and created the First Government Junta. Independence from Spain was declared on July 9, 1816. Centralist and federationist groups were in conflict, until national unity was established and the constitution promulgated in 1853.\n\nForeign investment and immigration from Europe aided the introduction of modern agricultural techniques and integration of Argentina into the world economy in the late 19th century. In the 1880s the "Conquest of the Desert" subdued or exterminated the remaining native tribes throughout Patagonia.\n\nFrom 1880 to 1930 Argentina became one of the six wealthiest nations in the world. Conservative forces dominated Argentine politics until 1916, when their traditional rivals, the Radicals, won control of the government. The military forced Hipólito Yrigoyen from power in 1930 leading to another decade of Conservative rule.\n\nPolitical change led to the presidency of Juan Perón in 1946, who aimed at empowering the working class and greatly expanded the number of unionised workers. The Revolución Libertadora of 1955 deposed him.\n\nIn the 1950s and 1960s, military and civilian administrations traded power. When military governments failed to revive the economy and suppress escalating terrorism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the way was open for Perón's return to the presidency in 1973, with his third wife, María Estela Isabel Martínez de Perón, as Vice President. During this period, extremists on the left and right carried out terrorist acts with a frequency that threatened public order.\n\n \nPerón died in 1974. His wife succeeded him in office, but a military coup removed her from office in 1976, and the armed forces formally exercised power through a junta in charge of the self-appointed National Reorganisation Process, until 1983. The armed forces repressed opposition using harsh illegal measures (the "Dirty War"); thousands of dissidents were "disappeared", while the SIDE cooperated with DINA and other South American intelligence agencies, and allegedly with the CIA in Operation Condor. Many of the military leaders that took part in the Dirty War were trained in the U.S. financed School of the Americas, among them Argentine dictators Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola.\n\nEconomic problems, charges of corruption, public revulsion in the face of human rights abuses and, finally, the country's 1982 defeat in the Falklands War discredited the Argentine military regime.\n\nDemocracy was restored in 1983. Raúl Alfonsín's Radical government took steps intending to account for the "disappeared", establishing civilian control of the armed forces and consolidating democratic institutions. Failure to resolve endemic economic problems and an inability to maintain public confidence caused his early departure.\n\nPresident Carlos Menem imposed peso-dollar fixed exchange rate in 1991 to stop hyperinflation, and adopted far-reaching market-based policies, dismantling protectionist barriers and business regulations, and implementing a privatisation program. These reforms contributed to significant increases in investment and growth with stable prices through most of the 1990s.\n\nThe Menem and de la Rúa administrations faced diminished competitiveness of exports, mass
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Yes, Hitler was democratically elected.  What does that say about humanity?\n\nWe certainly aren't making any headway toward peace on earth, especially if posts on this site are any indication.  We seem to be becoming more animalistic.
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The Test of Time - Winner is Castro.\n\nF. Castro has been his country's leader a long time.\nIn the last century no one has been a head of state as long as Castro has. He holds the world wide record.
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yes and no. Yes as in the way that they opften are members of paliament and therefore elected by popular vote. No, as it is the decision of government who gets which job.
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No, it's a republic. Their current president is Elías Antonio Saca González.
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ummmmmmm...WHAT?!?!?!?\n\nhe may have gotten some illegal votes...but not enough to sway the whole vote around
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Not directly.  But as a way of funding arms to the Contras in Nicaragua, he allowed it to happen.
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I think it is partly because the US government has been so bogged down in the mess it has created in Iraq and Afghanistan that it hasn't got the resources to impose its agenda on South America, and people are waking up, too.  As a consequence of American imposed policies through IMF, World Bank, puppet regimes, training secret police and torturers to cut dissent, etc.  millions and millions of people have been exploited, but as the saying goes, you can't fool all the people all the time...so now presidents who are more sensitive to people's agenda instead of catering to US interests and the corporate agenda are being elected.  For example in the case of Chavez in Venezuela, US tried to bring about a coup and get rid of him, but thank God it didn't work...times aren't like they were when the democratically elected president of Chile was killed and replaced by the monster, General Pinochet.  And God willing, this just the beginning...I hope American people will wake up, too, because they are also being betrayed.
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The current president is Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, from the Worker's Party, elected in 2002 for the 2003-2006 term. He was the most voted president in the world until then, receiving 56,7 million votes. It should be noted that voting is compulsory in Brazil :-)
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President of what country? (please be specific... we dont want to assume) lol.
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Unfortunately yes. If for no other reason than his uncanny preserverance. He has survived and led his country, though there have been many attempts on his life. He has kept alive communism in his country.\nOne can only hope that once he is out of power, Cuba can gain enough freedom to replace him with someone that has human rights as a main issue.
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Portillo.I guess. It's in Chile.
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michelle bachelet, shes a she and i regret i voted for her. shes got a lack of character and is the first female president chile has. shes the daughter of an air force general who was killed by the pinochet regime.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (pron. IPA: [lu'iz i'nasiu 'lulɐ dɐ 'silvɐ]; born Luiz Inácio da Silva on October 27, 1945; popularly and affectionately known as Lula, is the 39th and current President of Brazil. Lula was elected to the post in 27 October 2002 with 61% of the votes (run-off, "second-round" election between the two most voted "first-round" candidates), and took office on January 1, 2003.\nVR
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9/11 is when General Pinochet seized power in Chile with the help of the CIA.\n\nIronic that the bunch of terrorists carried out attacks in the USA on that anniversary.\n\nStill, if you think a missile hit the Pentagon or that a UFO hit the 2nd Twin Tower then I suspect that you love conspiracies.\n\nFor me, I believe that a group of mad Muslims hijacked several planes and crashed them into US buildings in the name of "Allah". Nothing sinister, no Government collaboration, just a major terrorist attack against the USA.
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Yes, and Us supported Pinochet in Chile, Batista in Cuba and many more bloody dictators, as show the link below.  Do you know that US give Israelis arms to kill palestinans? USA are not so friendly.