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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

She was told her babies were dead. Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on? Four families torn apart by Chile’s illegal adoption scandal finally found each other ...

Then–US Minister of Foreign Affairs Henry Kissinger (L) and General Augusto Pinochet (C). (Reuters) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

Because I've been traveling to Chile for research for the last few years, I've naturally taken an interest in their history, culture, and politics. Yesterday Augusto Pinochet, 91, died. Pinochet led a ...

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A Chilean appeals court dropped corruption charges on Friday against former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet's widow and four of his children, who had been accused of embezzling state money in ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism. But as Chile marks the ...

Philippe Sands, one of the world’s pre-eminent human rights attorneys, grew up in the shadow of bleak times. He worries that history is taking an unfortunate detour. By Michael Steinberger Chile’s new ...

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 ...