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Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte [A] (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean military officer who was the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990.From 1973 to 1981, he was the leader of the military junta, which in 1974 declared him President of the Republic and thus the dictator of Chile; [4] [5] [6] in 1980, a referendum approved a new constitution confirming him in the office ...
[74] According to Marc Becker, a Latin American history professor of Truman State University, the claim of the presidency by Juan Guaidó "was part of a U.S.-backed maximum-pressure campaign for regime change that empowered an extremist faction of the country's opposition while simultaneously destroying the economy with sanctions."
Operation Condor (Portuguese: Operação Condor; Spanish: Operación Cóndor) was a campaign of political repression by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America, [10] [11] involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing sympathizers in South America which formally existed from 1975 to 1983.
Akwasi Afrifa, President of the Second Republic (1969–1970) Nii Amaa Ollennu, Acting President of the Second Republic (1970) Edward Akufo-Addo, President of the Second Republic (1970–1972) Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Military Head of State (1972–1978) Fred Akuffo, Military Head of State (1978–1979) Jerry Rawlings, Military Head of State ...
She was the best player in the game from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. The golfer won 48 LPGA Tour events, including three championships. ... She was the first Latin American author to receive ...
Henry George, American social reformer [11] Charles Hall, British physician, social critic and Ricardian socialist [95] Christopher Hitchens, English-American journalist [96] Owen Jones, English journalist and political commentator [97] Helen Keller, American political activist [98] Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader ...
We collected old photos of major leaders and dictators, past and current, to give a taste of who they once were. ... People. Why Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's divorce took 8 years: Legal experts ...
DiTella, Torcuato S. Latin American Politics: A Theoretical Framework. Austin: University of Texas Press 1989. Hale, Charles A. "The Reconstruction of Nineteenth-Century Politics in Spanish America: A Case for the History of Ideas." Latin American Research Review 8 (Summer 1973), 53-73. Hamill, Hugh, ed. Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America ...