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Chile ex-dictator Pinochet in hospital after fall SANTIAGO, Chile, Saturday (Reuters) Augusto Pinochet, Chile's 87-year-old former dictator, was taken to a hospital on Friday evening after he fell and broke his wrist, a friend of the Pinochet family told Reuters. The retired general, who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, was taken to the navy hospital in the coastal city of Valparaiso and then flown by helicopter to a military hospital in Santiago, said the friend, who asked not to be named. Radio stations reported that Pinochet, who suffers from a heart condition and diabetes, fell in the bathroom of his apartment in Vina del Mar, a resort city near Valparaiso. Pinochet came to power in a 1973 military coup that toppled democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende. His rule was marked by human rights abuses and the deaths or disappearances of some 3,000 people. Pinochet lost a referendum in 1988 and stepped down in 1990. A center-left coalition has governed since then. In 1998-1999, Pinochet spent 17 months under house arrest in London on genocide charges brought in Spain. Efforts to try him on human rights charges in Chile have failed as courts have ruled that he is mentally unfit to stand trial. Pinochet has retired from public life. |
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