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 ...

The myth that the United States toppled President Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973 lives. In 1975, a Senate subcommittee headed by Frank Church -- a stalwart Democrat and no friend of the Nixon ...

As they often did, the headlines in the New York Times brought more bad news the morning of September 12, 1973: “Allende Out, Reported Suicide. Marxist Regime in Chile Falls in Armed Forces Violent ...

SANTIAGO, ChileSANTIAGO, Chile — The death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile’s 1973 military coup should be reinvestigated, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, saying new steps could help ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — President Michelle Bachelet marked Thursday’s anniversary of the 1973 military coup that toppled Marxist President Salvador Allende by urging Chileans to come forward with any ...

The daughter of overthrown Chilean President Salvador Allende requested via Twitter on Tuesday that Brazil open any secret archives that could shed light on any role it played in the 1973 coup that ...

The events of 1973 in Chile—the violent military overthrow of Salvador Allende, the country’s elected Marxist president, and the establishment of a 17-year dictatorship under Gen. Augusto ...

John Dinges’s revisionist account of Missing. The crew of Missing arriving for the screening at the 35th Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 1982.(Ralph Gatti / AFP via Getty Images) Just as I’m Still ...

FILE - Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda sits in Paris in October 1971. An appeals court in Chiles capital ruled Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, that the case of Neruda's death be reopened, saying the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The death of Nobel ...