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Raúl Iturriaga served under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet was a Chilean general who seized power in a coup d'état in 1973. He ruled Chile as a dictator until 1990. Iturriaga was a member of Pinochet's secret police, the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA). He was involved in the torture and murder of political opponents of Pinochet's regime.