Augusto Pinochet
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Chile to reopen probe into death of poet Pablo Neruda
Neruda had been preparing to flee into exile in Mexico to lead the resistance against the Pinochet regime when he died in hospital just 12 days after the coup
How public influence over economic matters is eroded
The experience of Chile’s Salvador Allende illustrates how the private sphere and superpowers control investment and natural resource exploitation
Workers’ rights at the heart of Chile’s new constitutional convention
The larger class struggle in Chile is mirrored in the struggle for better working conditions for the workers who are rewriting the constitution
Did 9/11 really change everything? It’s hard to tell if you’re brown
Witnessing 9/11 in New York, the fear and the unity, no one could agree if we were entering a new world, or a depressingly familiar one
Where will neoliberalism end?
LONG READ As the world was overtaken by upheaval last year, one photo emerging from the uprisings depicts a protestor bearing a promise: “Neoliberalism was born in Chile and will…
‘I murdered 18 people for the Pinochet regime’
Suicidal man confesses on a live radio phone-in to participating in the deaths of opponents of the late military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Pinochet’s men held 29 years after burning activists alive
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.
Pablo Neruda’s body exhumed over Pinochet regime murder claims
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
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
A Chilean judge ordered the remains of former president Salvador Allende exhumed for an investigation into whether he was murdered in a 1973 coup.
Report: Mugabe ignores Mandela’s plea to step down
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is ignoring approaches from former South African president Nelson Mandela to step down, reports said on Friday. The Zimbabwe Independent, quoting…
Cuba remembers Che Guevara 40 years on
Communist Cuba paid tribute on Monday to its poster boy, Ernesto ”Che” Guevara, 40 years after the guerrilla fighter was captured and executed in Bolivia. The man he helped to…
Chile judge orders arrest of Pinochet family
A Chilean judge on Thursday ordered the arrest of the widow and five children of late dictator Augusto Pinochet as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption,…