SANTIAGO, Regi??n Metropolitana de Santiago (AFP) – Forty years after the coup that toppled Salvador Allende and brought the dictator Augusto Pinochet to power, Chile remains a country ill at ease ...

This is a bonus episode of Stories of Resistance in commemoration of the resistance to the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto ...

Eliana Rodríguez holds a photograph of herself with her daughter Yelena Monroy at home in La Serena, Chile, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. The photograph was taken one year after they were released from a ...

Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarizes public opinion in his native Chile in death as he did in life, will be cremated on Tuesday following a military funeral. Scores of relatives, friends ...

When Chilean troops encircled La Moneda Palace in central Santiago on September 11, 1973, to overthrow the elected president, José Antonio Kast was just seven years old. He was too young to fully ...

JACOBINS AND JACKBOOTS Chilean Army Gen. Augusto Pinochet (left) and then Chilean President Salvador Allende before the coup that began Pinochet's 17-year-long dictatorship. COMMENTARY The vote to ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — A Chilean judge Tuesday questioned Augusto Pinochet for the first time in his three-year probe into the former strongman’s alleged role in human rights abuses. Judge Juan Guzman was ...

Scuba divers off Chile’s Pacific Coast found sections of railway track on the ocean floor on Wednesday believed to have been used to sink the bodies of people killed under Augusto Pinochet’s ...

For almost three years, Chile’s Gen. Augusto Pinochet has been struggling to stay out of jail. From London to Santiago, a team of lawyers succeeded in keeping him free, but it has been a stressful, ...

On Sunday, Rodrigo Garcia Pinochet arrived at a polling station in an upscale neighborhood of Santiago to vote in Chile’s general elections. Rodrigo Pinochet is thirty-three, so he was not yet born in ...

SANTIAGO, ChileSANTIAGO, Chile — Yelena Monroy was 3 years old when she was imprisoned for more than a year along with her younger sister and her mother, a socialist activist targeted by the regime of ...