Soldiers and firefighters carry the body of Chilean President Salvador Allende, wrapped in a Bolivian poncho, from the presidential palace after a bombing during the coup d'état led by Gen. Augusto ...
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 ...
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 ...
At the time, Democracy Now! broadcast from the garret of an old firehouse in Manhattan’s Chinatown, just blocks from the World Trade Center. On the program that morning, just as the planes struck the ...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – A Chilean court said U.S. military intelligence services played a key role that led to the 1973 killings of two Americans in Chile in a case that inspired the Oscar-winning film ...
The images, in grainy black and white, are etched into history. Clouds of smoke billow from La Moneda, the presidential palace in the heart of Santiago, as Hawker Hunter jets of the Chilean air force ...
FILE PHOTO: A picture of Pablo Neruda is seen inside his museum house in Isla Negra SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean appeals court on Tuesday ordered the reopening of an investigation into the death of ...