SANTIAGO- A plan to ease a ban on abortion in Chile has the backing of 70 percent of the country, a new poll released this week suggested, as a government push to do so navigated […]
SANTIAGO – A report on the TV program “Informe Especial” (Special Report), broadcast by Chile’s TVN, has added fuel to the fire about the juicy pensions for disability received by healthy retired military officers. Among […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s former army chief, Oscar Izurieta Ferrer, has criticized President Michelle Bachelet’s promise to close the controversial Punta Peuco prison, where almost 100 people are serving sentences for human rights violations. In a […]
SANTIAGO – More than 14 million Chileans are eligible to vote Sunday to choose in primary elections who will be the official candidates for the presidential elections of November 19 for two political alliances: Let”s […]
SYDNEY – Pressure is mounting on the Australian government to grant a Chilean extradition request for a Sydney woman accused of involvement in kidnapping, torture and murder as an agent of former military dictator Augusto […]
SANTIAGO – An amount of $4.8 million in cash and the assets frozen during a legal investigation are to be returned to the family of former military dictator Augusto Pinochet, a Chilean court decided Thursday. […]
MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities have captured an alleged leftist Chilean militant wanted in connection with the 1991 murder of a Chilean senator. Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office says that the man was captured in the […]
SANTIAGO – A Chilean judge has ordered jail sentences for over 100 former secret police from dictator Augusto Pinochet’s rule. This week, Judge Hernan Cristoso convicted 106 ex-agents who worked for Pinochet’s DINA intelligence service […]
By Por Fausto Triana SANTIAGO – The truth about the cause of death of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda seems to be imminent, after international scientific tests were made, an idea that seduces the family […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Supreme Court has ordered the Bachelet government to pay a total of $3.2 million to 71 former political prisoners who had been held during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, from 1973 […]
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