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Augusto Pinochet

May 2019

  • Augusto Pinochet

    Book of the day
    Upheaval by Jared Diamond review – how nations cope with crisis

    Nativism, complacency, suspicion of neighbours … this timely study warns that democracy is fragile

February 2019

  • General Augusto Pinochet

    Sydney nanny accused of role in Pinochet-era kidnappings

    Adriana Rivas faced an extradition hearing over charges she helped kidnap seven people in Chile in the 70s

January 2019

  • A picture of the Chilean former president Eduardo Frei Montalva, father of the former president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, is displayed in a public school in La Union town, south of Santiago January 17, 2010 Picture Taken January 17, 2010. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    Chile: six people sentenced for 1982 murder of former president

    Eduardo Frei Montalva was poisoned with ‘toxic substances’, judge ruled in highest-profile case from Pinochet’s dictatorship

November 2018

  • Bob Fulton, Stuart Barrie and Robert Somerville

    Remember when the unions could take on a dictator? These three do...

    Kevin McKenna
    Nae Pasaran tells the tale of a time when a group of Glaswegians defied Pinochet
  • Juan Emilio Cheyre, 70, was sentenced to three years and a day under house arrest.

    Judge convicts Chile's former army chief in deaths of 15 during Pinochet's regime

    He is the most senior figure to be held accountable for abuses committed during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship
  • Thanks … a banner at a Scottish parade in 1982.

    On yer way, Pinochet! The factory workers who fought fascism from Glasgow

    When Scots refused to service Chile’s jet fighters after the 1973 military coup, their protest all but grounded the air force – and may have saved prisoners’ lives. Nae Pasaran, a powerful documentary, tells their story

October 2018

  • Cultural coup … Donald Duck in The Three Caballeros, 1944.

    How we roasted Donald Duck, Disney's agent of imperialism

    When Ariel Dorfman co-wrote a book finding colonialist intent in the actions of a well-loved cartoon character, it got burned in Chile’s streets and earned him death threats. Now it’s back – and newly relevant in the ‘pre-fascist’ Trump era. He explains why

September 2018

  • An undated file photo shows Hartmut Hopp, the second-in-command of the German colony ‘Colonia Dignidad’ at the colony, in central Chile, in 2000.

    Germany won't jail doctor from Nazi paedophile sect convicted in Chile

  • File picture showing Chilean Army troops positioned on a rooftop fire on the La Moneda Palace 11 September 1973 in Santiago, during the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet which overthrew Chilean constitutional president Salvador Allende, who supposedly died in the attack on the palace. A Chilean judge on April 15, 2011 ordered the remains of former president Allende exhumed for an investigation into whether he was murdered in the coup led by General Augusto Pinochet or took his own life. Judge Mario Carroza ordered the measure after receiving a request from Allende's relatives, and the exhumation should take place in "the second half of May," a spokesman for the judiciary told AFP. The probe is part of the investigation into hundreds of human rights complaints against Pinochet's 1973-1990 military dictatorship. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

    I thought democracy in Chile was safe. Now I see America falling into the same trap

    Ariel Dorfman

May 2018

  • Search for missing grave in Colonia Dignidad/VIlla Baviera<br>Entrance stone to Villa Baviera/Colonia Dignidad. Colonia Dignidad was the seat of an ex Nazi religious sect led by convicted serial pedophile Paul Schaefer , who died in jail in 2010, and served as one of General Pinochet’s secret police’s clandestine torture sites. Today it is trying to reinvent itself as a tourist resort even though forensic investigations into the disappearances of over 100 people and the search for graves is ongoing. The property consists of 37.000 acres on the outskirts of the Parral in Maule region, some 380 km from Santiago, Chile.

    Excavations at Chile torture site offer new hope for relatives of disappeared

    Colonia Dignidad was a secretive enclave run by an ex-Nazi paedophile where victims of the Pinochet regime were tortured, killed and buried

February 2018

  • Augusto Pinochet with his wife Licia Hiriat and Margaret Thatcher

    The hypocrisies of our democracies

    Letters: American democracy was hijacked long ago by money and powerful interests, writes Luis Suarez-Villa. Plus Alan Knight and Daniel McCormick respond to reports of Jeremy Corbyn’s meeting with a Czech diplomat

December 2016

  • Roberto Kozak at the airport, helping MiR members into exile, handing them their visas and plane tickets.

    The Audio Long Read
    Latin America’s Schindler: a forgotten hero of the 20th century – podcast

  • Lucia Hiriart, widow of Chile’s late dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, talks to reporters next to a show case containing a uniform that belonged to her husband in a new museum exhibiting Pinochet’s memorabilia in Santiago, Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. The museum is sponsored by the Pinochet Foundation, made up of supporters and former aides to Pinochet, who died in 2006. (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin)

    Chile judge questions Pinochet's widow over embezzlement allegations

  • At the airport, Roberto Kozak assists a leader of the MiR to go into exile.

    The long read
    Latin America’s Schindler: a forgotten hero of the 20th century

  • Pinochet: Opponents found strength in music.

    Freedom songs: Chile’s sounds of resistance ring out again

November 2016

  • The Esmeralda in London in 2015

    Pinochet's torture ship sails into Sydney, sparking protests

    Four-masted tall ship the Esmeralda is a national symbol of Chile but some say the navy should retire it from service

October 2016

  • Alejandro Zambra

    Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra review – intriguing, but hardly nourishing

  • General Manuel Contreras, former head of the secret police in Pinochet’s Chile, arrives in court to be tried for murder.

    Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra review – choose your own Chilean misadventure

September 2016

  • Augusto Pinochet in the Dorchester hotel, London.

    My best shot
    Steve Pyke's best photograph: Augusto Pinochet at the Dorchester hotel

    ‘He carried himself like a world leader – but I was distinctly aware that I was in the presence of a terrible, terrible man’

August 2016

  • Thousands protest in Santiago

    Thousands protest in Chile against state pension provisions

    Protest groups say the current privatised system does not ensure dignified old age and want better retirement benefits
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