Salvador Allende

At the end of August, Chilean president Gabriel Boric launched the Search Plan for more than 1,000 Chileans. Today, old judicial documents, many typewritten, have been digitized to apply cutting edge technology and cross-reference data

The most unknown side of the socialist government – which ruled Chile between 1970 and 1973, until Pinochet’s coup d’état – has been revealed by an exhibition and a book: the prominence of graphic and industrial design

The expert believes the U.S. involvement in the 1973 coup is a blemish on the former statesman’s legacy: ‘It’s a story that has haunted Kissinger’s legacy and will now haunt his ghost’

On the 100th anniversary of the entertainment company, the Chilean writer analyzes the validity of his 1972 work, which points out how iconic cartoon characters have been utilized as means of American propaganda

A significant number of people, according to numerous polls, believe the 1973 coup was justified, and that Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who died in 2006, was a good leader who helped to modernize the country

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup d’état in Chile, the president and his predecessors talk to EL PAÍS about the divisions in the country. In the face of tensions and disenchantment, they call for national unity

An updated biography describes with new documentation the life and political trajectory of the former Chilean president, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death

The verdict in the Víctor Jara case half a century after his murder and the suicide of one of the convicted ex-military officers exposes the cracks in a country where no consensus exists on the condemnation of the September 1973 coup

Hernán Chacón Soto, 86, had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for aggravated homicide and 10 years for aggravated kidnapping for the assassinations of the singer and Littré Quiroga

The composer was assassinated along with former prisons chief Littré Quiroga five days after the September 11, 1973 coup against socialist president Salvador Allende

The documents were released Friday by the State Department in Washington, on the verge of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of the government of socialist Salvador Allende

Alejandro Artigas, now 74-years-old, describes a ‘Dantean scene’ and ‘a sepulchral silence’ in the office where President Salvador Allende lay dead, after the coup plotters bombed the palace

The group of Democratic legislators wants to understand how the country is strengthening its democracy

Declassified documents from the U.S. National Security Archive reveal a telephone conversation between the president and national security advisor after the failed CIA-backed plot

The Chilean writer recounts the ins and outs of her 1989 interviews with the dictator, after his defeat in the plebiscite that would have extended his time in power. ‘He was a very toxic figure… it wasn’t a pleasant experience,’ she tells EL PAÍS

Caught in the crossfire between his two closest confidants and fixated on conspiracies, the leftist leader is unable to get anything done

Ahead of Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday, the National Security Archive has published a selection of declassified documents that illustrate the ‘darker side’ of the former U.S. secretary of State

The Chilean songwriter was politically committed until the end, when he was murdered by the Pinochet dictatorship’s soldiers

A new biography about the singer-songwriter recounts the months and days before he was executed after the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende

According to Rodolfo Reyes, investigators have concluded that the toxin detected in the laureate’s body in 2017 was exogenous, meaning it must have been administered