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Dictator Pinochet looms large over Chile 50 years after coup

07-09-2023 12:04 Augusto Pinochet suspended democracy using military force to overthrow a popularly-elected president and rule Chile with an iron grip that saw thousands of his subjects tortured and killed. Yet, 50 years after his power grab, and despite a brutal legacy, the general continues to inspire admiration rather than condemnation among many.

HUMAN RIGHTS

50 years later, Chilean mothers pine for 'disappeared' sons

01-09-2023 17:53 A National Plan for the Search for the Disappeared was recently launched by the government of President Gabriel Boric, in the first coordinated attempt by the Chilean state to establish the conditions and circumstances in which each disappeared.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Chile doctor convicted of Pinochet-era crimes arrested at Ezeiza Airport

06-06-2023 21:47 Fugitive Manfredo Enrique Jurgensen arrested at Ezeiza International Airport moments before he boarded a flight to Germany; Chilean doctor convicted of crimes during Pinochet dictatorship could now be extradited.

RISE OF THE RIGHT

Chile's far right re-emerges after presidential defeat

11-05-2023 09:26 Led by conservative lawyer José Antonio Kast, an apologist for deceased military dictator Augusto Pinochet, Chile's Partido Republicano remains an enduring force.

NERUDA INVESTIGATION

Was Pablo Neruda poisoned? Probe members say inconclusive

17-02-2023 11:04 Two members of a scientific panel that investigated the mysterious death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda unable to determine whether or not Chilean poet was poisoned, though examination of his molars confirmed presence of toxic bacteria.

INVESTIGATION

Experts deliver report on Pablo Neruda's mysterious death to Chile judge

16-02-2023 14:37 Report delivered to Chilean Judge on Wednesday may suggest poison as the cause of death for Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda.

Chile Constitution Vote

Chileans reject overhaul of dictatorship-era constitution

04-09-2022 22:46 The new ultra-progressive constitution proposed by Gabriel Boric’s government has been decisively rejected by the Chilean public this Sunday, in a compulsory vote to choose whether to replace the dictatorship-era constitution.

Chile's New Constitution

Chile President Boric receives draft constitution

04-07-2022 13:22 Chile's constitutional convention on Monday handed its proposed new constitution to President Gabriel Boric ahead of a planned September referendum on adopting the text.

BORIC PREPARES TO TAKE OFFICE

Children of exile bring fresh vision to Chile cabinet

10-03-2022 20:59 Six of the 24 ministers who will form Gabriel Boric's Cabinet were born, raised or studied in exile, a legacy of the torture, imprisonment, repression and poverty that shook the country between 1973 and 1990.

PROFILE: GABRIEL BORIC

New president at 35 thrusts Chile back into exceptionalism role

21-12-2021 15:44 While Gabriel Boric is sometimes described as part of a leftward shift in Latin America, he seems to be of a new, more globalist, breed.

CHILE RUN-OFF 2021

Leftist Boric wins Chile presidency pledging economic overhaul

19-12-2021 20:28 Gabriel Boric elected president of Chile vowing higher taxes, greener industries and greater equality.

Ex-FIRST LADY DIES

Lucia Hiriart, widow of Chile's Pinochet, dead at 98

17-12-2021 02:31 Lucia Hiriart, 98, widow of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, died on December 16 at the residence where she lived in the company of all her children and grandchildren.

Elections in Chile

Chile violence a boost to far-right ahead of elections, say experts

22-10-2021 02:49 Violent clashes between protesters and security forces on the streets of Chile this week could be playing into the hands of the far-right with a general election just one month away, experts say.