As they often did, the headlines in the New York Times brought more bad news the morning of September 12, 1973: “Allende Out, Reported Suicide. Marxist Regime in Chile Falls in Armed Forces Violent ...

SANTIAGO, ChileSANTIAGO, Chile — The death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile’s 1973 military coup should be reinvestigated, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, saying new steps could help ...

Former Chilean president Gabriel Boric wanted to turn the site into a museum and a memorial. The home of his predecessor, who ...

On Sept. 11, 1973, Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a violent coup.The dictatorship that followed under Gen. Augusto Pinochet lasted 17 years, leaving ...

The myth that the United States toppled President Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973 lives. In 1975, a Senate subcommittee headed by Frank Church -- a stalwart Democrat and no friend of the Nixon ...

SANTIAGO — A Chilean appeals court on Tuesday ordered the reopening of an investigation into the death of the leftist poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda in 1973 soon after the military seized power ...

U.S. Homeland Security Department officials in Florida said they took into custody a former Chilean army official wanted in Chile for “torture and extrajudicial killings” following the 1973 military ...

LONDON (Reuters) - When Chilean air force jet engines arrived for repair at a Rolls-Royce factory in Scotland in 1974, inspector Bob Fulton swiftly decided he would not touch them. The World War Two ...

FILE - Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda sits in Paris in October 1971. An appeals court in Chiles capital ruled Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, that the case of Neruda's death be reopened, saying the ...