When Philippe Sands was researching his 2020 bestseller The Ratline he came across a letter held in the dusty family archive ...

Jeannette Jara, a candidate for the presidency of Chile and a member of the country's Communist Party (PCCh), has sparked ...

Cal State L.A. professor Ericka Verba, director of the Latin American Studies program, discusses her new biography of the ...

Chile has endured a long and at times tumultuous history over the years. Although the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet continues to influence many of the country’s struggles, it is not ...

The Chilean Forensic Medical Service is searching for the bodies of over a thousand people who were 'disappeared' during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet came to power through a military ...

The Settlers' writer-director is adapting the film, set around the arrest of Pinochet in London, from Philippe Sands' book ...

THERE seemed to be a break of sunlight in the dark firmament of Marcos rule last Friday, March 28, when hundreds of thousands of Filipinos participated in huge demonstrations in a dozen cities here ...

The comparison came as Trump and Putin’s relationship appeared to sour Sunday morning, with the US president slamming the Russian dictator over his failure to commit to an American-backed cease ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Guinea’s ruling junta has pardoned the country’s former dictator, Moussa “Dadis” Camara, who was serving a 20-prison sentence for the 2009 stadium massacre by the ...

We American citizens have never lived under a dictatorship and, as long as we “keep our noses clean” and avoid irritating the authorities, our lives might actually be pretty normal.

This isn’t just a faux pas, but the power that Trump is amassing using laws from the 1700s is making him into a dictator. What is happening to the checks and balances that have protected our ...

Guinea's ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara, jailed for 20 years over a 2009 massacre, was pardoned for "health reasons" by the West African country's junta head, with a human rights body Saturday ...