A supporter of Chile’s late President Salvador Allende holds a banner with his portrait at an event marking Allende’s 1970 electoral victory outside La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, ...

Stills from Patricio Guzmán's movies. Photos courtesy of Icarus Films and Kino Lorber. This month marks the 50th anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s coup on the presidency of Salvador Allende in ...

A former nanny and cleaner in Bondi, Australia, continues to fight her case after facing accusations from Chile of being a torturer and kidnapper for Augusto Pinochet, a former president of the South ...

Chile would become the first country in the world to democratically elect a Marxist president, Salvador Allende. After his arrival to the government in 1970, the class struggle would reach a decisive ...

On September 11, 1973, tanks rumbled over the streets of Santiago, Chile. Planes bombed La Moneda, the presidential palace, as US-backed General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile will seek to overturn its controversial Amnesty Decree Law, which protects military personnel who committed human rights violations during the dictatorship in the 1970s from ...

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For more than a decade in the 1970s and ’80s I worked as a translator with the Chilean writer Fernando Alegría, who at the time was chairman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- A court ruled Friday that former dictator Augusto Pinochet can be sued for a bloody wave of repression in the 1970s and '80s, after a TV interview in which he appeared lucid raised ...