“Augusto Pinochet was a dictator, essentially anti-democratic, whose government killed, tortured, exiled, and made disappear those who thought differently. He was also corrupt and a thief,” he ...

Chile's Lower House Tuesday passed a resolution striping late dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte from the title of “president” by 67 votes against 47 and 8 abstentions, it was reported in Santiago.

He is the most senior figure to be held accountable so far for abuses carried out during the regime of General Augusto ... Pinochet died in 2006, aged 91, without ever standing trial.

Police in southern Chile have arrested a former secret service agent sentenced to jail for human rights abuses during the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet. Reimer Kohlitz was ...