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General César Leonidas Mendoza Durán (September 11 1918 – September 13 1996) was a member of the Government Junta which ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 representing the country-wide police force the Carabineros de Chile. Mendoza was born in Santiago the youngest of the eleven children of Atilio Mendoza Valdebenito a science teacher and first mayor of La Cisterna and Amalia Durán a pianist. In 1938 young César Mendoza began his compulsory military service.