News of pinochet

Chile embarks upon a new path after landslide vote

31-10-2020 10:14 Chileans are eager for change, but a long road lies ahead in the search for a new constitution.

Chileans overwhelmingly vote to scrap Pinochet-era constitution

25-10-2020 22:42 Chile voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to scrap its Pinochet-era constitution and draft a new one. With more than half the votes counted, 77.9% backed a fresh charter, a key demand by protesters that took to the streets last year in huge numbers.

Constitutional referendum

Sniffing the winds of change in Chile referendum

25-10-2020 14:50 A year to the day after more than one million people thronged downtown Santiago in the biggest march of Chile's social uprising, Chileans vote Sunday on whether to change the country's dictatorship-era Constitution.

Constitutional referendum

Chileans vote on whether to rewrite dictatorship-era charter

25-10-2020 11:08 Chileans will decide on Sunday whether or not to replace the constitution that dates back to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and secondly, if the current Congress or other citizens should write the new text.

Global pandemic

Millions in Chile capital emerge from lockdown

28-09-2020 19:17 Chile on Monday lifted strict coronavirus lockdown measures for millions of people in the capital Santiago, a month ahead of a key referendum to amend the dictatorship-era constitution.

Democracy in Crisis

Protests in Chile hit LatAm's biggest music festival

24-02-2020 09:48 Protesters, using rocks and molotov cocktails, engaged in clashes with the police during the Viña del Mar Music Festival in a demonstration against Chilean President Sebastián Piñera.

CHILE PROTESTS

Chile to amend constitution, a key demand of protesters

11-11-2019 13:36 As protests enter fourth week of violent unrest, President Sebastián Piñera agrees to rewrite and replace Pinochet-era document.

Chile Protests

UN to probe abuses in Chile as strike continues

24-10-2019 23:44 Head of UN Human Rights Council and former Chilean president says the “verification mission” will “examine the allegations of human rights violations.”

STATE DEPARTMENT SHAKE-UP

A new face at the reins of US diplomacy toward Latin America

13-09-2019 14:55 Acting Western Hemisphere official crucial figure in US foreign policy in Latin America for decades, from Venezuela to the invasion of Panama.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Mass protest in Santiago against abuses of Pinochet era

09-09-2019 13:54 Thousands of demonstrators poured onto Santiago's streets Sunday to honour the victims of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. But the march, which started peacefully, ended in violence.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Woman accused of Chile dictatorship kidnappings asks for bail in Sydney court

24-05-2019 09:07 Chile requested Adriana Rivas' extradition in 2014 on charges that she kidnapped seven people in 1976 and 1977. The alleged victims have never been found.

News of pinochet

Chile embarks upon a new path after landslide vote

Chileans overwhelmingly vote to scrap Pinochet-era constitution

Sniffing the winds of change in Chile referendum

Chileans vote on whether to rewrite dictatorship-era charter

Millions in Chile capital emerge from lockdown

Protests in Chile hit LatAm's biggest music festival

Chile to amend constitution, a key demand of protesters

UN to probe abuses in Chile as strike continues

A new face at the reins of US diplomacy toward Latin America

Mass protest in Santiago against abuses of Pinochet era

Woman accused of Chile dictatorship kidnappings asks for bail in Sydney court

Magnitude-6.4 quake strikes San Juan and other provinces

Second delivery of Russia's Sputnik vaccine arrives in Argentina

Plan Máximo: First the province, then the presidency

Colombia will expel foreigners caught partying as Covid-19 spreads

The fallacy of 'deplatforming' Donald Trump

Contribuyentes ARBA: quiénes pueden solicitar la exención de hasta el 50% de Ingresos Brutos

Las dos caras de Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: clases presenciales, pero sin vacantes

Le desvalijaron el departamento a Sanfilippo: dos días antes su mujer perdió las llaves

Alberto Fernández: "Si Paul McCartney toca Blackbird en mi despacho, no como más carne"

Bolsonaro: "Quien decide si se vive en democracia o en dictadura son las Fuerzas Armadas"