“In Chile there's no room, and there can be no room, for violence or fear,” President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday at a ceremony commemorating the 41st anniversary of the 1973 military coup ...

In 1973, the elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende of Chile was toppled in a right-wing military coup led by ...

In other words the situation of Chile at the time was chaotic, “sometimes the left-wings like to think that Chile started on 11 September 1973, and that is simply not true”.

Soldiers stormed factories and killed and detained hundreds of workers on the very day of the coup. Chile’s most popular singer-songwriter Victor Jara had the bones in his hands broken, suffered ...

For most of the last 50 years I have been afflicted with a perverse regret: that I did not die in Chile on Sept ... As the 50th anniversary of the coup approached, that lethal Sep. 11, 1973 ...

Polls conducted last year, a half-century after the coup, showed that a powerful minority of Chileans have retained support for Pinochet, particularly Chilean businessmen and the armed forces.