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Place of Birth: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
About Juan Emilio Cheyre
- Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinoza (born October 10, 1947) is a retired Chilean Army General.
- He was Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army from 2002 to 2006.
- As Commander-in-Chief he attempted to distance the Army from former dictator General Augusto Pinochet, and condemned the human rights abuses of Pinochet's dictatorship. In 1973 he handed over a two-year-old child, whose parents had been murdered by the army, to a nunnery.In 2003, Cheyre as Commander-in-Chief of the Army issued an historically relevant document titled "Chilean Army: End of a Vision," in which he stated that "never again" could the circumstances that led Chile to the collapse of its democracy be met.
- [1] Cheyre was succeeded as Commander-in-Chief by Army General Oscar Izurieta on March 10, 2006.
- He worked later as an academic at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
- In 2013 he was appointed as president of the "Servicio de Registro Electoral", but a few months later he withdrew from his office as a consequence of the controversy surrounding his acts in 1973 when he handed over a child.
- On November 9, 2018, Cheyre was convicted for complicity in the deaths of 15 left wing activists in September 1973 and was sentenced to three years and a day of house arrest.
- Ariosto Lapostol, who was Cheyre's commanding officer at this time, was also convicted for the killings and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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