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Augusto Pinochet

November 2021

  • Adriana Rivas

    Bondi nanny accused of kidnapping Pinochet opponents loses appeal against extradition to Chile

    Adriana Rivas is facing seven counts of aggravated kidnapping relating to the disappearance, and presumed murder, of Chile communist party members

September 2021

  • chile's Rodrigo Rojas Vade

    Chile protest leader reveals he lied about having cancer

  • Campaigners from families of some of the 10 victims shot dead by British soldiers in Ballymurphy in 1971 march in Belfast

    UK’s Troubles amnesty plan goes further than Pinochet’s, study says

June 2021

  • Adriana Rivas

    Adriana Rivas: Sydney woman and alleged Pinochet agent loses appeal to avoid extradition to Chile

  • Chileans protest outside Sydney Town Hall for the extradition of Adriana Rivas

    ‘We demand justice’: the retired Sydney nanny and the Chilean families still looking for answers

February 2021

  • A photo copy of Maria Diemar’s 2 month old passport photo.

    The Audio Long Read
    'I just needed to find my family': the scandal of Chile's stolen children – podcast

    At two months old, Maria Diemar was flown to Sweden to be adopted. Years later, she tracked down her birth mother, who said her baby had been taken against her will. Now investigations are showing that she was one of thousands stolen from their parents

January 2021

  • Maria Diemar’s passport photo, taken when she was two months old.

    The long read
    'I just needed to find my family': the scandal of Chile's stolen children

    The long read: At two months old, Maria Diemar was flown to Sweden to be adopted. Years later, she tracked down her birth mother, who said her baby had been taken against her will. Now investigations are showing that she was one of thousands stolen from their parents

October 2020

  • Demonstrators supporting the reform of the Chilean constitution in Santiago, 25 October.

    Chile's latest steps towards true democracy are a beacon for the world

    Kirsten Sehnbruch
  • Tens of thousands celebrate in Santiago as Chile votes to tear up the country's Pinochet-era constitution 

    1:43

    Chileans vote by huge majority to replace Pinochet-era constitution – video report

  • An elderly woman is assisted as she votes during the referendum on a new constitution in Santiago, Chile.

    Chile: millions head to polls in referendum on constitutional reform

  • Graffiti in Santiago in support of the referendum. The constitution facilitated the privatisation of public sectors, helping Chile became one of Latin America’s richest but most unequal countries.

    Chance for Chile to forge new path in vote to scrap Pinochet-era constitution

September 2020

  • illo for Long Read on Operation Condor by Giles Tremlett - final web version

    The Audio Long Read
    Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America – podcast

  • collage type illustration for long read about Operation Condor

    The long read
    Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America

December 2019

  • A T-shirt alluding to helicopter flights by the Chilean military dictatorship of Gen Augusto Pinochet that cast political prisoners to their deaths in the ocean, as presented for sale on Amazon on 5 December 2019.

    Amazon pulls Chile dictatorship 'death flights' T-shirts after backlash

    Leftwing opponents were dropped from helicopters into sea, and a range of shirts with mocking allusions to practice were on sale at the online retailer

October 2019

  • Protests against Chile’s government in Santiago<br>People and demonstrators run as a riot police vehicle uses a water cannon during a protest against Chile’s government in Santiago, Chile October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

    How Pinochet's economic model led to the current crisis engulfing Chile

    President Sebastián Piñera has chance to lay foundation of a real welfare state as protests reflect country’s discontent with inequalities
  • Protesters walk near a burning barricade in Santiago.

    'They smashed me in the head': anger at Piñera as Chile's bloodied protesters allege brutality

    Death toll rises to 15 in worst unrest Chile has faced since Pinochet, as armed men in masks prowl Santiago firing at defiant crowds
  • Thatcher with Pinochet and his wife in 2000 in Surrey, where the former Chilean dictator was under house arrest. Thatcher wrote: ‘Scotch is one British institution that will never let you down.’

    Thatcher sent Pinochet finest scotch during former dictator's UK house arrest

    Detail revealed in latest volume of Thatcher biography adds color to close relationship between UK PM and dictator who oversaw deaths of thousands

September 2019

  • SWITZERLAND-UN-RIGHTS<br>UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet attends a press conference one year after she took office at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on September 4, 2019. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images

    Bolsonaro taunts UN rights chief over her father's torture by Pinochet regime

    Brazilian president said without the dictator ‘Chile would be a Cuba today’ after Michelle Bachelet criticized rising police killings

August 2019

  • Portraits of people who disappeared during Chile’s dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Where are they?’: families search for Chile’s disappeared prisoners

    Many went missing between 1973 and 1990 during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet – and relatives are still seeking answers

May 2019

  • Members of the Chilean Australian community from the National Campaign for Truth and Justice in Chile, Australia demonstrate following a brief court appearance by Adriana Rivas.

    Accused Chilean kidnapper for Pinochet regime denies knowing victims

    Adriana Riva, in custody in Sydney following an extradition request from Chile, has applied for bail
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