Who was Lucia Hiriart, the dictatorship’s “woman of iron” Pinochet’s widow?
Doa Luca, as she was affectionately known, was regarded as a remarkable “political strategist “: throughout the dictatorship, Lucia Hiriart acted in her shadow by utilizing her immense powers. Lucia Hiriart, the widow of Chilean general Augusto Pinochet, author of the 1973 revolution in Chile against then-President Salvador Allende, died …