Matthei then reported to president General Augusto Pinochet who agreed to the request since it was seen as a great opportunity to reinforce the Chilean air force, help British victory and ...

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said the call “for murdering people using the Pinochet regime’s preferred method of dropping them out of helicopters is really not great.” ...

“Augusto Pinochet was a dictator, essentially anti-democratic, whose government killed, tortured, exiled, and made disappear those who thought differently. He was also corrupt and a thief,” he ...

After more than five years of political upheaval that threatened to polarize Chilean society, voters in Latin America's fifth ...

The trial against the former Colombian president is generating expectations. A look at other Latin American leaders who have ...

Chile's Congress approved a reform to the country's controversial private pension system on Wednesday, clearing the way for ...

By the time he died, he was known as Chile's most important intellectual, a friend of the democratically elected leader Salvador Allende and a vocal opponent of Pinochet. Neruda planned to go into ...

In an interview with Le Monde, the director of the biopic devoted to the opera singer looks back over the last few years.

Pedro Pascal, 42, was born in Santiago, Chile, but soon after his birth, his parents were forced to seek political asylum for their opposition to dictator Augusto Pinochet. “My mother’s cousin ...

The political thriller details a historical encounter between Chile’s doomed president Salvador Allende, whose downfall heralded the rise of the brutal military dictatorship of General Augusto ...

Mark Johanson If you're looking to learn more about General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, plan a visit to the Museum of Memory and Human Rights (Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos).