Chile's ultraconservative opposition candidate, José Antonio Kast, has secured a thumping victory in the presidential runoff ...

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

What explains why 51 years after Pinochet's coup, Chile has elected someone who is nostalgically fond of dictatorship? The ...

Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the strongman who imposed a reign of terror on Chile from 1973 to 1990, must be smiling in his grave.

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

Chilean authorities Wednesday paid tribute to the victims of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte which started on Sept. 11, 1973, after the military uprising resulted in the death of ...

Kast easily beat leftist presidential candidate Jeannette Jara, steering the country its farthest rightward since the military dictatorship ended.

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

Some in Chile celebrated with champagne but for others, there was no joy in death of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, only the sense of a final injustice committed by the dictator who brutally ruled the country ...

Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year dictatorship carried out thousands of political killings, widespread torture and illegal jailings, clung to life in a Chilean hospital Sunday after suffering a ...

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 ...

These days politics and advertising go hand in hand. Mayors stage photo ops. The Bush administration compared the Iraq war to rolling out a new product. And just last year, Barack Obama and Mitt ...