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During his 13-year-long presidency Hugo Chavez had to deal with five US ambassadors and numerous charge d'affaires. The history of relations between them and the Venezuelan leader shows how successfully one can oppose a policy of blackmail, conspiracy, o
In light of new reports of state-sanctioned actions against members of Las Damas de Blanco Last weekend, diaspora blogger Uncommon Sense suggested that: Pope Benedict XVI should postpone his planned visit in late March to Cuba. The visit was part of a qu
A schoolgirl reads a schoolbook approved by the High Education Council referring to the 1973 coup against President Salvador Allende, in Santiago, on January 5, 2012. Primary school textbooks in Chile must now refer to the 1973-1990 era of Augusto... View Photo »
The Sept. 11, 1973 coup, the death of his friend, President Salvador Allende, and the persecution launched against others of his friends, caused his health to deteriorate to the point that ... he had to be transferred in an emergency from his Isla Negra home to the Santa Maria Clinic on September 19
Look at the map: Chile is a very long, thin country – from north to south it stretches further than the distance from London to Baghdad. Which means that the position of Santiago de Chile, at its geographical centre, is paramount. Almost every traveller
Machuca (2005) is a semi-autobiographical film by Andrés Wood about class, education, socialism and militarism but above all teenage friendship and romance. Set in Santiago Chile during 1973 (before and after the coup by General Pinochet against socialis
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was born the son of a customs official, rose quickly through the officer corps and, as early as the 1950s, was involved in politics, as he headed the clampdown on the Chilean Communist party. Paradoxically, it was for his apparent
In this Tuesday Jan. 3, 2012 photo, tourists visit the grave of Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda in Isla Negra, Chile. Neruda and his close friend, socialist President Salvador Allende, died almost simultaneously under suspicious circumstances in the... View Photo »
Republished permission Inter Press Service (IPS )copyright Inter Press Service (IPS) http://www.ipsnewsasia.net/ and http://www.ipsnews.net/ MADRID, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) - Another trial opened Tuesday with Spain's best-known judge, Baltasar Garzón, in the
ISLA NEGRA, Chile (AP) — The suspicions have lingered for decades. Pablo Neruda, Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, would have been a powerful voice in exile against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. But that all changed just 24 hours before Neru
Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the coup d'état of 11 September 1973. Full Article
Picture of late Chilean President Salvador Allende, taken in February 1973. Experts studying the remains of Salvador Allende concluded the former president committed suicide as soldiers involved in a 1973 coup closed in on the presidential palace, the late leader's daughter said on July...
View Photo »Isabel Allende (L), daughter of former Chilean President Salvador Allende, arrives for the exhumation of her father's coffin in Santiago May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were exhumed on Monday as part of a judicial process to clarify the circumstances of his death, which, according to...
View Photo »A protester holds a flag showing the image of former President Salvador Allende among thousands marching toward La Moneda presidential palace on the second day of a national strike in Santiago, Chile, Thursday Aug. 25, 2011. Chileans marched peacefully Thursday, demanding profound...
View Photo »A demonstrator dressed up as former Chilean President Salvador Allende attends a students' rally to demand changes in the public state education system in Santiago August 9, 2011.
View Photo »From L to R : Mgr Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, Mrs Hortensia Bussi de Allende, widow of former Chilean President Salvador Allende, French President François Mitterrand, his wife Danielle Mitterrand, Chairman of Amnesty International and Nobel Peace Prize Sean Mac Bride, and former...
View Photo »In this Tuesday Jan. 3, 2012 photo, tourists visit the grave of Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda in Isla Negra, Chile. Neruda and his close friend, socialist President Salvador Allende, died almost simultaneously under suspicious circumstances in the chaos that followed the country's...
View Photo »In this Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 photo, Manuel Araya, former driver and personal secretary of Chilean Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda, speaks during an interview in the port city of San Antonio, Chile. Neruda and his close friend, socialist President Salvador Allende, died almost...
View Photo »Isabel Allende, daughter of late former Chilean President Salvador Allende, poses with Patricio Bustos, director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, in Santiago July 19, 2011, after knowing the results for the exhumation of her father's coffin on May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were...
View Photo »Isabel Allende (C), daughter of late former Chilean President Salvador Allende, attends a news conference outside the Medical Legal Institute in Santiago July 19, 2011, after the exhumation of her father's coffin on May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were exhumed as part of a judicial...
View Photo »(L-R) Scotland Yard's Bal'sitico expert David Pryor, Basque Country Forensic Pathologist Francisco Etxeberria, Senator Isabel Allende, Maya Fernandez Allende, former President Salvador Allende's niece, family lawyer Pamela Pereira and Germain Allende Tapia, SML Thanatologist and expert...
View Photo »(L-R) Scotland Yard's Bal'sitico expert David Pryor, Basque Country Forensic Pathologist Francisco Etxeberria, Senator Isabel Allende, Maya Fernandez Allende, former President Salvador Allende's niece, family lawyer Pamela Pereira and Germain Allende Tapia, SML Thanatologist and expert...
View Photo »Isabel Allende, daughter of late former Chilean President Salvador Allende, poses with Patricio Bustos, director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, in Santiago July 19, 2011, after knowing the results for the exhumation of her father's coffin on May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were...
View Photo »Isabel Allende (C), daughter of late former Chilean President Salvador Allende, attends a news conference outside the Medical Legal Institute in Santiago July 19, 2011, after the exhumation of her father's coffin on May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were exhumed as part of a judicial...
View Photo »British ballistics expert David Prayer, left, speaks to reporters after attending a news conference announcing the autopsy results of Chile's late President Salvador Allende, in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday July 19, 2011. A scientific autopsy has confirmed that Allende committed suicide...
View Photo »Chilean Sen. Isabel Allende, daughter of Chile's late President Salvador Allende, speaks to reporters after attending a news conference announcing the autopsy results of the former president, in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday July 19, 2011. A scientific autopsy has confirmed that Allende...
View Photo »Chilean Sen. Isabel Allende, daughter of Chile's late President Salvador Allende, and Dr. Patricio Bustos, director of Chile's Medical Legal Service descend the stairs of the Medical Legal Institute in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday July 19, 2011. A scientific autopsy has confirmed that the...
View Photo »Members of parliament attend the exhumation of former Chilean President Salvador Allende at Santiago, May 23, 2011. Allende's remains was exhumed on May 23 as part of a judicial process to clarify the circumstances of his death, which according to the military version, was a suicide.
View Photo »Chilean judge Mario Carroza attends the exhumation of late former Chilean President Salvador Allende's coffin in Santiago May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were exhumed on Monday as part of a judicial process to clarify the circumstances of his death, which, according to the military...
View Photo »Isabel Allende (C), daughter of late former Chilean President Salvador Allende, gestures as she attends the exhumation of her father's coffin in Santiago May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were exhumed on Monday as part of a judicial process to clarify the circumstances of his death,...
View Photo »Police officers stand at the tomb of former Chilean President Salvador Allende, before his coffin is exhumed, in Santiago May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were exhumed on Monday as part of a judicial process to clarify the circumstances of his death, which, according to the military...
View Photo »A policeman walks into the tomb of former Chilean President Salvador Allende before his coffin is exhumed, in Santiago May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were exhumed on Monday as part of a judicial process to clarify the circumstances of his death, which, according to the military...
View Photo »Workers carry the exhumed casket of former Chilean president Salvador Allende from his tomb in Santiago May 23, 2011. Allende's remains were exhumed on Monday as part of a judicial process to clarify the circumstances of his death, which, according to the military version, was a suicide.
View Photo »Legal Medical Service experts remove the coffin of Chile's late President Salvador Allende from his tomb after being exhumed in Santiago, Chile, Monday May 23, 2011. Nearly 38 years after Chile's former president died in a military coup, his body is being exhumed in an exercise that...
View Photo »Chilean Senator Isabel Allende, daughter of Chile's late President Salvador Allende, touches his coffin in Santiago, Chile, Monday May 23, 2011. Nearly 38 years after Chile's former president died in a military coup, his body is being exhumed in an exercise that even now is fraught with...
View Photo »FILE - In this May 23, 2011 file picture, Chilean Sen. Isabel Allende, daughter of Chile's late President Salvador Allende, touches his exhumed coffin in Santiago, Chile. A scientific autopsy has confirmed that the former president committed suicide during the 1973 coup, Chilean court...
View Photo »Picture of late Chilean President Salvador Allende, taken in February 1973. Experts studying the remains of Salvador Allende concluded the former president committed suicide as soldiers involved in a 1973 coup closed in on the presidential palace, the late leader's daughter said on July...
View Photo »The Sept. 11, 1973 coup, the death of his friend, President Salvador Allende, and the persecution launched against others of his friends, caused his health to deteriorate to the point that ... he had to be transferred in an emergency from his Isla Negra home to the Santa Maria Clinic on September 19
