LOOK: Pinochet's Torture Chamber Now Shelter For Thousands

When the great poet died 40 years ago in Chile, it was said to be from cancer. Now lawyers say it was murder. nick clark reports THE hunt is on for the suspected killer of one of South America's most celebrated poets four decades after his death, ...

Crime is Slate s crime blog. Like us on Facebook , and follow us on Twitter @slatecrime . In September 1973, 12 days after Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Chilean government in a military coup, poet Pablo Neruda died in a hospital, ostensibly of ...

"Pinochet could win this vote without cheating, if he wants - that's what is so terrible," says José Tomás Urrutia, who is spearheading the "No" campaign against Chile's military dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1988.Pinochet, under international (and ...

The late Margaret Thatcher played a major role in global affairs, including in one of the defining events of modern international law. In 1998, Baltasar Garzón, a Spanish judge, demanded the extradition of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet ...

An advertising executive comes up with a campaign idea to defeat Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in No, which starts Friday, April 19, at The Pageant Theatre.Showtimes for No are 6 p.m. on

The Vatican once dismissed reports of massacres by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as "Communist propaganda", according to US diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s leaked on Monday. One cable dated October 18, 1973 sent to Washington by the ...

Neruda died Sep 23, 1973, 12 days after Gen. Augusto Pinochet toppled Chile`s Socialist government in a bloody coup.

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Isabel Allende, a leading Latin American novelist, has praised the efforts of the Church in Chile on behalf of human rights following the 1973 overthrow of President Salvador Allende, her father's first cousin. After Augusto Pinochet took power and ...