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Augusto Pinochet

Ruler of Chile, 1973 to 1990

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Regime responsible for torture and disappearances

Seized power in a coup against Salvador Allende, imposed free-market reforms designed by the “Chicago Boys” and oversaw torture and disappearances. He left office after losing a 1988 plebiscite.

Augusto Pinochet sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority, strongly free market on economy and strongly traditional on culture.

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Where Augusto Pinochet sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Augusto Pinochet

Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.96%NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…92%MilitarismTreats military strength and martial values as central to national life.91%FalangismA Spanish fascist-inspired movement stressing nation, Catholicism and corporatist unity.91%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile., CC BY 2.0 cl, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.