Santiago, Chile.September 1988..Police remove anti-Pinochet posters from a wall in Santiago after a protest by mothers of missing children in Chile. The mothers, who's children who were arrested for political reasons, were arrested when they began a protest...In 1988, General Augusto Pinochet ordered a plebiscite vote asking Chilean citizens whether he should continue in office. It produced a decisive "no" vote and the following year he lost the first presidential election in 19 years. However, under a constitution crafted by his advisors, he remained as army commander until 1998. Pinochet continued to wield enormous power until his arrest in London on human rights charges in October 1998.