There was “unanimous approval,” records a secret summary of the meeting. The transnational “sistema Condor” was born—an infamous symbol of abuses of power of the past that authoritarianism can bring ...

SANTIAGO, CHILE — A fugitive ex-general from the Pinochet era was captured Thursday, Chilean authorities said. Former Gen. Raul Iturriaga Neumann, 69, was arrested without incident in an apartment in ...

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SANTIAGO, Chile – Admirers of former dictator Augusto Pinochet inaugurated a museum in his honor on Friday, a move they hope will burnish the image of a man reviled by much of the world. Visitors to ...

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 ...

The brutal Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, whose military regime burned and banned many books, nevertheless amassed one of the largest and most valuable personal libraries in Latin America. His ...

There is an old saying: If you're going to attack the king, make sure you kill him. In the case of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, five U.S. presidents—from Jimmy Carter to George W.

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At Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s funeral, one of his grandsons, an Army captain also named Augusto Pinochet, gave a eulogy so defiant and aggressive that he was cashiered the next day. Earlier, as the ...

THE world got its first glimpse of Augusto Pinochet on September 11th 1973. The presidential palace, La Moneda, had been bombed a few hours earlier on his instructions; Salvador Allende, Chile's ...

Thousands of Chileans, some praying and many in tears, flocked to a chapel in Santiago on Monday to pay their respects to Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator who polarized the country and who died ...