“I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.”

— Augusto Pinochet

November 1998, during detention in London http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20061210/pags/20061210221221.html
1990s

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Former dictator of the republic of Chile 1915–2006

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