On September 21, 1976, former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier, his colleagues at the Institute for Policy Studies Ronni ...

As Chile approaches the 50th anniversary of its 1973 coup, the country’s government has launched an initiative to search for people who disappeared during the authoritarian rule of General Augusto ...

An act of international terrorism on the streets of Washington, DC, still reverberates 50 years later. It has been 50 years since former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his young colleague, ...

November’s midterms bring parallels with a moment in October 1988. But Pinochet’s exit wasn’t the end of his influence ...

Chile arrests 284 during protests against Pinochet's dictatorship, marking a year without official commemorative events for victims.

Patricio Guzmán, who has died aged 85, was a Chilean film-maker whose epic award-winning three-part documentary, The Battle ...

Human rights activists rally outside the Government Palace in Santiago for relatives of those who were forcibly disappeared under the Pinochet regime. Chile's government announced it would aim to ...

The investigation of money laundering at Riggs Bank has helped reopen efforts in Chile to hold former dictator Augusto Pinochet accountable for alleged human rights violations during his 17-year rule.

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Demonstrators lie on the ground to represent people who disappeared during Augusto Pinochet's regime, part of a peaceful protest related to the 40th anniversary of the coup d'etat that ushered in ...

When is a murderous dictatorship not so bad? A number of pundits seem eager to ask this question as once inspiring popular uprisings, from Egypt to Syria to Ukraine, start looking less and less likely ...

It’s curious, historically speaking, that Margaret Thatcher died on the same day that forensic specialists, in Chile, exhumed the remains of the late, great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. The author of ...