SANTIAGO – A special magistrate in Chile’s capital yesterday handed a five-year term to four former agents of the 1973-1990 military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet for the qualified kidnapping (disappearance) of a member of the […]
SANTIAGO – A judge has sentenced eight retired military officers to a total of 18 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of Chile’s most famous folk singer Victor Jara and a government official […]
SANTIAGO – Human rights organizations in Chile have strongly criticized the state pardon granted to a military officer sentenced for assassinations during Gen. Pinochet’s dictatorship, although the action was merely symbolic. Chile’s news site La […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s constitutional court has struck down a law that would have banned universities operating for profit, dealing a blow to free tuition reforms brought in by former leftwing president Michelle Bachelet. In a […]
SANTIAGO – The outgoing president, Michelle Bachelet is ending her second non-consecutive term with an ambitious proposal for a new constitution for Chile. On Tuesday, she sent the proposal to Congress to replace Gen. Pinochet-era […]
SANTIAGO/TEHRAN – Yesterday, Ignacio Llanos handed over a copy of his credentials to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as Chile’s first-ever envoy to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. During the Sunday meeting in […]
SANTIAGO – A Chilean judge on Wednesday handed down sentences to three members of General Augusto Pinochet’s secret police for the assassination of Miguel Enriquez, the former head of Chile’s Movement of the Revolutionary Left […]
SANTIAGO – This week, a Chilean court acquitted 68 of 75 people convicted for kidnapping and disappearing Maria Angelica Andreoli, a nutrition and diet student, on Aug. 6, 1974. The crime against the Revolutionary Left […]
SANTIAGO – This week, Chile’s Supreme Court jailed three former army officers for their involvement in murdering a trio of political prisoners during Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year military dictatorship. Army Lieutenant Colonel Sergio Gutierrez Rodriguez and […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s ex commander-in-chief of the Air Force, Fernando Matthei Aubel died on Sunday at the age of 92. Mattheri, a member of the Military Junta with which Augusto Pinochet governed from 1973 to […]
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