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U.S. agents have long been accused of complicity in the murder of two Americans in Chile. A two-decade investigation suggests ...
Chilean authorities Wednesday paid tribute to the victims of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte which started on Sept. 11, 1973, after the military uprising resulted in the death ...
Sept. 11, 2023, marks 50 years since Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet rose to power in a U.S.-backed coup and ushered in 17 years of brutal military rule.. The coup ended a century and a half of ...
Augusto Pinochet's right-wing rule was marked by tens of thousands of arrests, torture and disappearances. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.
During the ensuing 17-year rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, more than 3,000 people would be disappeared or killed and some 38,000 would become political prisoners — most of them victims of torture.
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was born the son of a customs official in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso on 25 November 1915. It was apparently his mother who pushed him into a military career, and his ...
The late Augusto Pinochet's legacy continues to divide Chile more than 30 years after he seized power, writes Nick Caistor.
A half-century after Pinochet’s coup, some Chileans remember the brutal dictatorship fondly. The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and ...
In 38 Londres Street, Philippe Sands brings to light the struggle to hold Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and former Nazi Walther Rauff accountable.