Chile has elected its most Right-wing president since the Pinochet dictatorship fell, with the conservative Jose Antonio Kast defeating his communist rival. Mr Kast won 58.2 per cent of the vote in a ...

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 ...

Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Andra B. Chastain is an Associate Professor of History at ...

Sebastián Piñera: the first centre-Right conservative leader after Pinochet era - MARTIN BERNETTI Sebastián Piñera, who has died in a helicopter crash aged 74, was a Chilean businessman who made a ...

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 ...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- The Eternal Flame of Liberty, christened by Gen. Augusto Pinochet in 1975, was one of the most visible monuments to his dictatorship. Recently, it was extinguished without fanfare ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Chileans have elected the most right-wing presidential candidate since the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship over three and a half decades ago. In a runoff held on Dec. 14, ...