Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinoza (born October 10, 1947) is a retired Chile

Chile

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an Army General. He was Commander-in-Chief

Commander-in-Chief

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 of the Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an Army

Military of Chile

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 from 2002 to 2006. As Commander-in-Chief he attempted to distance the Army from former dictator General Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...

, and condemned the human rights abuses of Pinochet's dictatorship.

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 be meet the circumstances that led Chile to the collapse of its democracy. http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20041105/pags/20041105090447.html

Cheyre was succeeded as Commander-in-Chief by Army General Oscar Izurieta on March 10, 2006. He is currently working as an academic at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

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Qualifications

Some of Cheyre's academic qualifications include:

• Licenciate in Military Sciences (Army War Academy)
• Master of Science in Political Science (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
• Master of Military Sciences (Army War Academy — it corresponds to the regular course every officer should accomplish, see Licenciate above)
• Ph.D.
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   in Political Science and Sociology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)