Fernando Matthei Aubel (11 July 1925 – 19 November 2017) was a Chilean Air Force general who was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973...

presidential election. Matthei was born in Santiago de Chile, the second child of Elda Fornet Fernández and Fernando Matthei Aubel, a military officer...

moment that almost caused a military insurrection. Air Force General Fernando Matthei replaced Leigh as junta member. General Pinochet took over as President...

street demonstrations in the capital. The Air Force chief, General Fernando Matthei, was the first member of the junta to publicly admit to the press,...

resolution condemning Pinochet's government). He was replaced by General Fernando Matthei. Pinochet organized a plebiscite on 11 September 1980 to ratify a new...

a decree signed by other junta members. The junta selected General Fernando Matthei to replace him. Despite his strong differences with General Pinochet...

ally junta members had declared Leigh to be unfit. Airforce General Fernando Matthei replaced Leigh as junta member. Another dictatorship member critical...

war to defend itself. However, Pinochet's Chilean Air Force General Fernando Matthei opposed a preventive war and responded that "I can guarantee that the...

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junta, Fernando Matthei and designed on his request a light bomb, that could be dropped from any airforce plane, in only 15 days. When asking Matthei what...