Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet

Retired Chilean Army Gen. Luis Cortez, right, director of the Pinochet Foundation, gestures with a Chilean soldier after speaking to the press outside of Chile´s Military Hospital in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Dec. 4, 2006. Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year dictatorship carried out thousands of political killings and widespread torture, was fighting for his life in a Chilean hospital Sunday after suffering a heart attack. (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez)