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He entered the Escuela Militar at the age of seventeen, graduated in , and was promoted to second lieutenant in Pinochet distinguished himself professionally as a specialist in military geography and geopolitics. He held several staff and command posts, and was a member of the Chilean military mission in Washington, D. By , Pinochet had risen to the rank of division general, and the next year he became commandant of the Santiago garrison, one of the most sensitive and influential of Chilean army assignments.

By his own admission, Pinochet had been very critical of politics in general and Marxism specifically since his days as a junior officer.

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As Santiago garrison commandant he was profoundly influenced by the social, economic, and political turbulence accompanying the administration of Socialist Salvador Allende Gossens. Pinochet became president of the military junta, a body composed of military commanders in chief. A year later he became president of the Republic of Chile.

His term of office was formally extended later through the adoption of a constitution giving him an eight-year term — As a result both of Allende's policies and economic pressures applied by foreign interests, especially the administration of U. Nixon, and the Chilean political opposition between and , the country was in an economic depression from late until late This was also a period of harsh authoritarian rule, during which Pinochet consolidated his influence over the armed forces and the government.

By , however, Chileans, especially those of the middle and upper sectors, and some foreigners were talking of an "economic miracle" based on free enterprise, foreign loans, and "denationalization" of the economy.

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Pinochet's own popularity peaked in , when a questionably legitimate plebiscite confirmed his leadership and policies. The growing opposition denounced the legitimacy of the exercise. In the early s his popularity plummeted as Chile suffered economic recession, and the government resorted to stricter controls of the press, exile of some dissidents, curfews, and multiple violations of human rights reminiscent of the early stages of Pinochet's rule.