SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – One former Chilean soldier said he shot 10 people in the head and then blew up their bodies with dynamite. Another said his platoon drenched two teens with gasoline and set them ...

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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism. But as Chile marks the ...

Augusto Pinochet died of a heart attack on December 10, 2006 aged 91. More than 50,000 people turned out to mourn him - Copyright KCNA VIA KNS/AFP STR Augusto ...

SANTIAGO, Regi??n Metropolitana de Santiago (AFP) – Forty years after the coup that toppled Salvador Allende and brought the dictator Augusto Pinochet to power, Chile remains a country ill at ease ...

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SANTIAGO, CHILE — They came not to bury the ex-despot but to praise him. “El general saved us from communism,” said Maria Elena Tiznado, one of thousands of Chileans who stood in line for hours ...

And Pinochet died, you know, a couple of years ago without ever telling the truth about what he had done or how it had been done. So, reconciliation is very, very difficult if the people who have done ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — The Supreme Court of Chile stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution Thursday, a landmark ruling in the decades-long effort by human rights activists ...

For more than 70 years, 10 December has been celebrated around the world as Human Rights Day, a way of commemorating the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed on that ...