Topic: Augusto Pinochet
by liberal japonicus This Guardian piece and the accompanying video is well worth your attention. Garzón was the judge who issued an international...
Chilean government and student representatives met for talks on education reform after a day of fierce clashes between student protesters and police in the capital.Riot police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse tens of thousands of protesters, some of ...
At least 50 demonstrators were arrested Thursday when masked protesters attacked police at the end of a massive and otherwise peaceful march in Santiago demanding more resources for education.Tens of thousands of students, teachers and their supporters marched from the University ...
Chile commemorated Sunday the 38th anniversary of the coup that launched the 17-year dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, remembering the more than 3,000 people killed under the regime.Convened by a group of relatives of those killed, thousands of people gathered in ...
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean teenager died early on Friday a day after being shot in the chest during massive protests in the capital against President Sebastian Pinera, police said, the first fatality in months of social unrest.Police said the youth was ...
0 View Larger Image Nostalgia for the Light . Documentary. Directed by Patricio Guzmán. In Spanish with English subtitles. (Not rated. 90 minutes...
Reuters. Salvador Allende in 1973, the year he died. . Shrouded in bloodshed and smoke, chaos and controversy, September 11 defines the trauma of a...
A South Bronx community organizer - tortured by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's government in the 1970s - is being deported after living here...
AFP / Getty Images. Hosni Mubarak addresses the Egyptian people and announces that he will not seek re-election, ending three decades of rule. ....
0 . The French prosecutor in the trial of 14 former officials who served under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet asked for 15-to 20-year jail ...