SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – General Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Chile’s democratically elected Marxist president in a bloody coup and ruled this Andean nation for 17 years, died Sunday, dashing hopes ...

Fifty years ago on Monday, Latin America’s first elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende, was deposed in a military coup in Chile. As Allende’s Cuban-trained presidential guard defended La Moneda ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Viola remembers the terror of being naked in front of her captors, the blows to her body and the pain. Carlos recounts being barely able to ...

Chile also can count on a vigorous and truly independent judiciary that is not inclined to tolerate an anti-democratic blitz. Nor is it certain that the armed forces, leery of being drawn into ...

This year’s September 23 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whom Gabriel Garcia Marquez called “the greatest poet of the 20th century — in any language.” ...

Activists of Chilean human rights organization "Detainee and Disappeared Persons" take part in a demonstration in Santiago, in remembrance of late President Salvador Allende, who died during the 1973 ...

On September 11, 1973 the Chilean military led by General Augusto Pinochet slapped Fidel Castro and his Soviet mentors so smartly that his Stalinist regime (and its dutiful U.S. media minions) are ...

The streets of Santiago were slick from fire-hose spray, and the acrid scent of tear gas lingered in the crisp air. It was the autumn of 1985, and the tempo of protest against Chile's military ...