Just a couple of weeks before the commemoration events of the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean coup d'état (11 September), retired Generals and Admirals addressed a letter to President Gabriel ...

A Chilean Bank was forced last week to withdraw from its online collectors' store a coin alluding to the 1973 coup d'état from sale following protests on social media.

The situations in Chile and in Britain were very different - in Britain there had been no military coup. Yet, as she was to demonstrate when he was arrested on human rights abuse charges in 1998, ...

At every corner you would see tanks with armed soldiers," says Oscar Cardenas, a Chilean filmmaker who was living in central Santiago during the military coup, and grew up during the dictatorship ...

Together they helped to shape the Chilean left — one of the most vibrant ... that Allende’s failure to retreat from his revolutionary goals therefore made the coup inevitable. Perhaps each of these ...

(CNN)-- A court in Chile has sentenced 24 former police officers in cases of kidnapping, torture and murder that happened just after a U.S.-backed coup toppled the country's democratically elected ...

While Chile is "at war" over the relevance of Neruda, the country remains "deeply polarized" over its recent history, said The New Yorker. Last year, around the 50th anniversary of the coup that ...

12 These cases include some of the most emblematic ones of the years immediately following the coup. Others from the ... progress toward clarifying the fate of Chile's 1,102 "disappeared" has ...

Hispanic Heritage Month: Wilmer Valderrama reflects on Fez character, immigration, fatherhood in new memoir From displacement ...

The 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup against Salvador Allende reminded many of the need to continue to defend democratic rights and support the struggle for democracy and socialism. Jim ...