Latest articles on Augusto Pinochet

Where will neoliberalism end?

Article William Shoki - 22 Jan 2020

LONG READ As the world was overtaken by upheaval last year, one photo emerging from the uprisings depicts...

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‘I murdered 18 people for the Pinochet regime’

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Dec 2015

Suicidal man confesses on a live radio phone-in to participating in the deaths of opponents of the late military dictator Augusto Pinochet.

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Pinochet’s men held 29 years after burning activists alive

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Jul 2015

The case of one of the most notorious torture cases of the 17-year military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet over Chili was reopened in 2013.

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Pablo Neruda’s body exhumed over Pinochet regime murder claims

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Apr 2013

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was long thought to have succumbed to cancer but his driver claims he was murdered by the Augusto Pinochet regime.

Venezuela fights to defend its progress

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Apr 2012

Venezuela is a country that still faces a host of major challenges but its citizens remain united against military rule.

Judge orders Chilean president exhumed

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Apr 2011

A Chilean judge ordered the remains of former president Salvador Allende exhumed for an investigation into whether he was murdered in a 1973 coup.

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