When Chilean soldiers broke into her home and dragged her partner from bed on a spring night in 1986, Alicia Lira was 37 years old. She ran behind the military vehicles screaming, but never saw her ...

Chile's right-wing president-elect Jose Antonio Kast on Tuesday named two ex-lawyers of former dictator Augusto Pinochet to ...

VILLA BAVIERA (Reuters) -Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's military regime as the government ...

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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who terrorized his opponents for 17 years after taking power in a bloody coup, died Sunday, putting an end to a decade of intensifying efforts to bring him to ...

Kate Saar discovered she was one of thousands of Chilean babies taken from their mothers and sold for adoption during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. A DNA test confirmed her connection to her birth ...

The dictator has died this past Sunday. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, born into a middle class family in 1915, a late-comer to coup plotting in 1973, and subsequent figurehead of the military coup ousting ...

By Fabian Cambero and Alexander Villegas SANTIAGO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast on Tuesday ...

One Saturday morning in September, four men burst into Miguel Angel Bravo's home in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood of Chile's capital Santiago. The 61-year-old accountant, who lives with his wife ...

Jose Antonio Kast installs a ‘great team for difficult times’, after being elected on a wave of anti-crime and anti-immigrant ...

A man shows a portrait of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990) following the first results of the presidential runoff election in Santiago on December 14, 2025. Chilean voters ...