General Pinochet's museum in Chile opens

Lucia Hiriart, the widow of Chile's late dictator General Augusto Pinochet, talks to reporters next to a showcase containing a uniform that belonged to her husband Photograph: Santiago Llanquin/AP

Pinochet's office is recreated in the Santiago museum, sponsored by the Pinochet Foundation, made up of supporters and former aides to Pinochet, who died in 2006 Photograph: Santiago Llanquin/AP

The faces of the men who led the 1973 military coup against Chile's late President Salvador Allende: (from left) Jose Toribio Merino of the Navy, Augusto Pinochet, Gustavo Leight of the air force and Cesar Mendoza of the police Photograph: Santiago Llanquin/AP

Medals belonging to Chile's late dictator sit in a showcase Photograph: Santiago Llanquin/AP