Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the strongman who imposed a reign of terror on Chile from 1973 to 1990, must be smiling in his grave.

José Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday’s runoff against Jeannette Jara, a member of the Communist Party who served ...

Sunday's election makes Chile the latest country in Latin America to decisively swing from the left to the right, following Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama. Peru, ...

Chile heads to a presidential runoff on Sunday, with far-right contender José Antonio Kast — a supporter of former dictator Augusto Pinochet — tipped to win.

Under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, prisoners were tormented with music but still found solace in it, a new book reveals ...

Far-Right politics has claimed yet another South American country – Chile – with the recent victory of the ultraconservative ...

“Dare to look” is the challenge extended to visitors at a new exhibition of pictures by self-taught documentary photographer Paz Errázuriz, who made it her life’s work to chart the day-to-day ...

Pinochet and his generals. Detail from the cover of 38 Londres Street. Early in the afternoon of March 24, 1999, my wife, Angélica, and I were seated high up in the gallery overlooking the chamber of ...

SANTIAGO, CHILE — A fugitive ex-general from the Pinochet era was captured Thursday, Chilean authorities said. Former Gen. Raul Iturriaga Neumann, 69, was arrested without incident in an apartment in ...

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The early years of Pinochet are told from the eyes of an upper middle class woman whose life unravels in this Cannes-selected thriller. Manuela Martelli tells the story of the early years of Chilean ...

SANTIAGO, CHILE — A judge ordered the arrest Thursday of the widow and five children of former military strongman Augusto Pinochet on corruption charges stemming from more than $20 million found in ...