Chile - 2 Are Charged With Torture in Death of Ex-President's Father - NYTimes.com Two military officers were charged Tuesday with torturing a former president's father to death. Ramon Caceres Jorquera and Edgar Benjamin Cevallos Jones, both retired colonels, were charged with torture that led to the death of Gen. Alberto Bachelet in 1974. General Bachelet had been arrested for opposing the 1973 military coup. His daughter Michelle was president from 2006 to 2010.