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 ...

Three decades before the 2001 al-Qaida terror attacks on the US, Sept. 11 was infamous for another bloody event which ended one era of history and brought forth ...

The early years of Pinochet are told from the eyes of an upper middle class woman whose life unravels in this Cannes-selected thriller. Manuela Martelli tells the story of the early years of Chilean ...

SANTIAGO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Chilean Mireya Garcia, 64, feels there is more at stake than usual in this Sunday's presidential election. The vote offers two visions for the future of Chile - ...

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 ...

In the fall of 1997, 24 years after he took control of Chile in a brutal military coup, Augusto Pinochet's reputation was on the mend, at least in some quarters. In 1990, he had surrendered power to ...

Manuel Contreras, the former head of Chile's feared intelligence service under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, has died. He was 86. Contreras died in a military hospital in Santiago, officials ...

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.” ...

Seven ex-military men were indicted Friday in Chile over the 1986 killing of a photographer reportedly doused with gasoline and set ablaze by soldiers during a protest against then-ruler Augusto ...