SANTIAGO – A Chilean court has convicted the country’s former army chief for his role in the killing of 15 people during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s military rule. General (r) Juan Emilio Cheyre, […]
SANTIAGO – A thousand guitar players and hundreds of other musicians and fans will pay homage to the assassinated Chilean singer-songwriter, Víctor Jara, who was tortured and killed on this day (16 September 1973) by […]
SANTIAGO – The president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, has said that at the time of the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government, Chilean democracy was sick and that the crisis of the country was unsustainable. […]
SANTIAGO – Protesters have clashed with police during a march in solidarity with the victims from the Augusto Pinochet era, a 17-year dictatorship which began on September 11, 1973. On Sunday, thousands of protesters filled […]
PHILADELPHIA – An exhibit of art and photography documenting the terror and suffering during the Chilean military coup opens on Sept. 11, 2018, at Penn’s Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 45 years to the […]
SANTIAGO – Former Colonel Sergio Arredondo, a former convicted member of Chilean death squad, died at a military hospital in Santiago this week. Arredondo, 92, was carrying out a 15-year sentence for orchestrating the deaths […]
Stephen Borunda/Special to The Santiago Times In ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’, Hannah Arendt explains that under a dictatorship, everyone has already been found guilty: “We are dealing merely with the arbitrariness by which victims are […]
Santiago – Carmen Paz Allende, the eldest daughter of former Chilean President Salvador Allende, recalled Fidel Castro with great affection and gratitude ”for allowing my son to study medicine in Cuba.” Discreet and always attached […]
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