Where is pinochet buried

Documents declassified during the Clinton administration showed the CIA sought the overthrow of Allende and knew about the impending Pinochet coup two days in advance.

Once General Pinochet took power, the US praised him as he brought in American economic advisers and instituted free market reforms in Chile.

He says he and other US officials grew increasingly frustrated over General Pinochet's unwillingness to return Chile to democracy. By it was time for him to go. He lived in Chile during the final years of Augusto Pinochet's rule.

He tried to bring order out of the disorder in Chile in the s, but the country paid a very heavy price. Have those times now passed in that area of the world? He really cast a long shadow, and he was a figure that was steeped in symbolism, and it was a symbolism that was associated with bloody coups, human rights violations, political repression, and that I think has tarnished the image of the whole region, not just Chile. And it still, I think, lingers, that stereotype, that image, and I think with his passing, i think perhaps people will be able to understand and see Latin America on its own terms.

Mr Berger, a lawyer and journalist, had been arrested on 11 September after refusing to broadcast a government message at the radio station where he worked.

His and the other men's remains were identified after extensive forensic tests in Europe, and finally buried in a ceremony at the main cemetery in the Chilean capital, Santiago.

The six men were murdered by what became known as the Caravan of Death, in one of the most notorious episodes of the Pinochet government. The General sent the "delegation" of military men to Chile's provincial towns because he was reportedly annoyed that some commanders there had been "soft" on political opponents. The Caravan of Death is thought to have killed 97 opponents of the military coup.

According to official figures, 40, people were victims of human rights abuses during the Pinochet government and 3, were killed or disappeared. Augusto Pinochet died in hospital on 10 December , aged Chile Caravan of Death: Eight guilty. Despite numerous cases brought to court, he fended off prosecution all the way until he died by first claiming immunity based on his political status, and then claiming he was too unhealthy to be tried.

The funeral today, presided over by military Bishop Juan Barros Madrid, was marred by hissing upon the arrival of Blanlot, who was not dressed in the customary black for a funeral and did not greet Pinochet's family as she took a seat in the front row of mourners. The former general's coffin was carried in on a wagon, followed by a riderless horse, symbolising the death of a soldier. Lucia Hiriart, Pinochet's wife, was in tears as she was presented with the Chilean flag which had covered his coffin during the rites.

A cadet also removed from the coffin his military cap and jacket and the sword of Chilean liberator Bernardo O'Higgins. After the funeral ended Pinochet's body was loaded onto a helicopter to be taken to the coastal resort city of Concon, where he will be cremated in a private family ceremony, the ashes to be handed over to his family. The ex-dictator's death threw a spotlight on painful divisions in Chile's society that have never disappeared since he left power.

Never tried for alleged crimes arising from his 17 years in power, news of his death led to celebrations in the streets of the capital, but also rioting that left 99 people arrested.

Denied the three days of mourning and flags at half-mast customary for a former head of state, Pinochet's body was taken yesterday to the Military School where over 60, people stood in line to pay their last respects.

But local media reported that at least one person spat on the former general in his casket, while three youths made a Nazi-style salute. Pinochet's youngest son, Marco Antonio, expressed anger earlier that his father was not given a state funeral. Augusto Pinochet "was totally committed to his country and took it out of indescribable chaos", he said. While the charges against Pinochet will now likely never be heard in court, his wife and children still face corruption and tax evasion charges for allegedly stashing millions of dollars in state funds in accounts outside Chile, including in Washington's former Riggs Bank.

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