SANTIAGO, Chile – As bombs fell and rebelling troops closed in on the national palace, socialist President Salvador Allende avoided surrender by shooting himself with an assault rifle, ending Chile’s ...

What explains why 51 years after Pinochet's coup, Chile has elected someone who is nostalgically fond of dictatorship? The ...

Fifty years ago on Monday, Latin America’s first elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende, was deposed in a military coup in Chile. As Allende’s Cuban-trained presidential guard defended La Moneda ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — The mansion was used as a domestic spying center by the feared secret police of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Now it will house works of art and be dedicated to the socialist overthrown by ...

Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile who died yesterday aged 91, saved his country from communism and created the most successful economy in Latin America; he was also responsible, however, ...

The images, in grainy black and white, are etched into history. Clouds of smoke billow from La Moneda, the presidential palace in the heart of Santiago, as Hawker Hunter jets of the Chilean air force ...

The admirer of dictator Augusto Pinochet and son of a Nazi party member will become Chile’s most right-wing president since ...

Fifty years ago in Chile, the United States worked to end the presidency of an elected Marxist and, in turn, helped usher in an authoritarian right-wing dictatorship. During the ensuing 17-year rule ...

Chile looks set to elect its most right-wing president since Pinochet on Sunday, reflecting a broader regional swing away ...

A supporter of Chile’s late President Salvador Allende holds a banner with his portrait at an event marking Allende’s 1970 electoral victory outside La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Some 5,000 fervent supporters of Augusto Pinochet mourned on Tuesday at the funeral of the former Chilean dictator whose repressive 17-year rule made him infamous worldwide ...

Mr. Dorfman is the author of “Death and the Maiden” and “The Suicide Museum.” This essay is part of How to Live With Regret, a series exploring the nature of regret and the role it plays in all our ...