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Speech (29 June 1982), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
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I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

— Augusto Pinochet

What It Means

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Augusto Pinochet

About Augusto Pinochet

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (November 25, 1915 – December 10, 2006) was a general and de facto head of state of Chile. He led a military junta to power in 1973 through a coup d'état, deposing the elected Socialist president Salvador Allende and establishing a military dictatorship.