SANTIAGO, ChileSANTIAGO, Chile — As bombs fell and rebelling troops closed in on the national palace, socialist President Salvador Allende avoided surrender by shooting himself with an assault rifle, ...

After weeks of intense, sometimes violent nationwide protests, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has relented to demands to rewrite the Chilean Constitution. The protesters say they want a new ...

Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his ...

Thirty years after General Augusto Pinochet led a brutal coup against Chile's incumbent president, the country's economy is showing surprising resilience. In the first of three articles, BBC News ...

On September 11, workers and youth demonstrated in Santiago, Chile, to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the CIA-backed coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende and ushered in 17 years ...

As a child, Pablo Pastén used to accompany his father to rivers in Chile’s Atacama Desert. His father worked for the General Directorate of Water and would wade into the waterways to measure their ...

(Santiago) – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, who died in Santiago on December 10, pioneered the use of “disappearances” as a tool of repression in South America, Human Rights Watch ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, the archbishop of Santiago, arrives at the prosecutor’s office in Rancagua, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. A prosecutor is questioning Ezzati about allegedly covering up ...

In the heart of Santiago's shopping district, a giggling group of professional young women are comparing plastic dildos. Their laughter continues as they browse the sex toys and lubricant gels in the ...