Experts say José Antonio Kast able to ‘reactivate a dormant Pinochetism’ and warn more education needed on ‘horrors of dictatorship’ ...

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died on Sunday at the age of 91. He took power in a U.S.-supported coup on September 11, 1973, and ruled Chile for 17 years. During that time, his government ...

The memory of state repression has divided Chilean society ahead of the presidential runoff on Sunday, in which the far-right ...

José Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday’s ...

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Under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, prisoners were tormented with music but still found solace in it, a new book reveals ...

(AP) SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile plans to open the last will and testament of Gen. Augusto Pinochet on Wednesday, a key step in determining the true size of a fortune the strongman allegedly amassed by ...

Newly declassified documents released by the Obama administration confirm the long-held suspicion that in 1976 the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was responsible for killing two people on American ...

Chile’s new leader wants to rewrite its past and recast its future. By Ariel Dorfman Durante gran parte del siglo XX, la CIA planeó complots para derrocar gobiernos, asesinar líderes destacados o ...

When Julio Ponce Lerou married Augusto Pinochet's daughter Veronica, he was a young man with little more to his name than a forestry degree. Today, he's a billionaire with a net worth FORBES estimates ...

A Chilean woman living in Australia and accused of multiple kidnappings during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet must be extradited to face the charges in her home country, an Australian ...

THE world got its first glimpse of Augusto Pinochet on September 11th 1973. The presidential palace, La Moneda, had been bombed a few hours earlier on his instructions; Salvador Allende, Chile's ...