SANTIAGO, Chile – As bombs fell and rebelling troops closed in on the national palace, socialist President Salvador Allende avoided surrender by shooting himself with an assault rifle, ending Chile’s ...

Fifty years ago, Chile began the darkest period in its modern history. On Sept. 11, 1973, Gen. Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that included the bombing of La Moneda, the presidential palace in ...

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

Fifty years ago on Monday, Latin America’s first elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende, was deposed in a military coup in Chile. As Allende’s Cuban-trained presidential guard defended La Moneda ...

José Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday’s ...

What explains why 51 years after Pinochet's coup, Chile has elected someone who is nostalgically fond of dictatorship? The ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile on Monday marks 50 years since a violent coup by Augusto Pinochet against socialist President Salvador Allende ushered in two decades of military rule, saw thousands killed and ...

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SANTIAGO, Chile — The mansion was used as a domestic spying center by the feared secret police of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Now it will house works of art and be dedicated to the socialist overthrown by ...

The images, in grainy black and white, are etched into history. Clouds of smoke billow from La Moneda, the presidential palace in the heart of Santiago, as Hawker Hunter jets of the Chilean air force ...

Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile who died yesterday aged 91, saved his country from communism and created the most successful economy in Latin America; he was also responsible, however, ...

A supporter of Chile’s late President Salvador Allende holds a banner with his portrait at an event marking Allende’s 1970 electoral victory outside La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, ...