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Sergio Arellano Stark, driver of the ‘Caravan of Death’ (a helicopter-borne killing squad) under Pinochet, dies at 94

by Adam Bernstein

Sergio Arellano Stark, a Chilean army general who led the “Caravan of Death,” a helicopter-borne killing squad that helped establish Augusto Pinochet’s iron grip on power in the 1970s, died March 9 in the capital city of Santiago. He was 94.

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