Augusto Pinochet

The ultra-neoliberal policies of the new president threaten to dynamite the already weak foundations of the welfare state in the South American country

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the Chilean head of state reviews his time in office and addresses his political future. ‘The depth of the changes we imagined went against the grain of what the majority of people wanted. We changed our priorities and our speed, but not our principles,’ he says, at the halfway point of his administration

For the first time, the Chilean victim is able to hug her children, who were taken from her at birth and adopted off to a family in the United States. ‘I couldn’t believe it when they told me they were alive,’ she tells EL PAÍS

Twice president, he broke the hegemony of the Chilean left in 2010, faced a social uprising, and at 74 had not abandoned the possibility of running for office again

Journalists Marcelo Contreras and Rafael Valle release a book featuring 96 interviews, in which they refute myths about the industry during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship

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

Simón López Trujillo’s new sci-fi novel delves into real-world issues with deft lyricism

The Chilean researcher emphasizes that we must think about a political system from the perspective of those who live on its margins

The Chilean artist uses her own body in performances to broadcast her people’s resistance. Facing down colonialism, she asks for collective, self-critical reflection

The current charter was born in 1980, under the Pinochet dictatorship, but it has been amended 70 times since then. In 2022 the quorum required to modify it was lowered

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’

After Chileans rejected the proposal for what many characterized as one of the world’s most progressive constitutions, they must now decide whether to vote for a document that some warn goes to the other extreme

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

Now a cameraman for Spanish broadcaster TVE having taken refuge in Paris after escaping from prison in 1990, the former Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front fighter tells the story of the attempt on the Chilean dictator’s life

The former president argues that his opponents will not be able to defeat his candidate, Luisa González, in the presidential runoff on October 15

Thousands of people attended a concert in tribute to the victims at the closing ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of Pinochet’s coup

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

Pablo Larraín’s ‘El Conde’ achieves the difficult feat of building a satire around the dictator and his impact on modern-day Chile without trivializing him or forgetting his atrocities

The commemoration has triggered clashes between left-wing and opposition politicians, who accuse President Gabriel Boric of having a biased vision