On Sept. 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a successful military coup against the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende and proceeded to rule Chile for the next 17 years ...

A Chilean appeals court stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution Friday so he can face new charges for abuse of funds in a $27 million tax fraud case. Subscribe to ...

Chile’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the indictment and house arrest of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet for nine kidnappings and one homicide allegedly committed during a long regime marked ...

At least 3,200 people were killed by army death squads under Pinochet, including 1,200 whose bodies remain unaccounted for. The fact that the corpses had not been found in a number of cases was used ...

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish judge threatened to seize up to $100 million from Banco de Chile and individuals suspected of laundering funds for Augusto Pinochet, including the former Chilean ...

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 ...

Patricio Guzman, a Chilean now living in Paris, began work on this wrenching 2001 documentary after hearing that General Augusto Pinochet had been arrested in London to be tried in Spain for murders ...

Having a made a name for himself with a trilogy of documentaries about Salvador Allende's brief socialist revolution and Pinochet's ensuing putsch called The Battle for Chile -- considered classics of ...