
Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87
Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow ...

Chile's Bachelet courts Communists for big reforms
Communist and other leftists were considered enemies of the state during Chile's military dictatorship, a 17-year period that saw thousands of people ...

Chile successfully exhumes body of poet Neruda
Chilean forensic experts exhumed the body of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda on Monday, trying to solve a four-decade mystery about the death of one the ...

Chile seeking answers in death of poet Neruda
The body of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda is being exhumed this weekend in an effort to clear up four decades of suspicion about how he died in the days ...

Bachelet: Chile left's hope in presidential vote
Michelle Bachelet has a deep resume: daughter of a general tortured to death for opposing a coup, leftist exile during the ensuing bloody ...

'Operation Condor' trial begins in Buenos Aires
Argentina began a long-awaited human rights trial Tuesday focused on Operation Condor, the 1970s conspiracy launched by Chilean dictator Augusto ...

Oscar foreign film nominees reveal movie magic
A few old-school video cameras, a cloned apartment, a sea of digital sharks, and an actress who helped herself to craft services were just a few ...

Report: Chile's Pinochet wanted anti-vote violence
Newly published U.S. documents indicate that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet sought to use military force to annul the referendum portrayed in the ...

Chile aims to focus summit on its brighter side
European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering for this weekend's economic summit will likely see only one side of Chile — the polished, ...

Academy shows love for 'Amour' with 5 Oscar nods
Hollywood's movie elite sent their love to "Amour" on Thursday, giving director Michael Haneke's searing portrait of old age five Academy Award ...

Chilean street dogs are protesters' best friends
They don't have demands, but they're loyal to the cause and are always on the front lines of the fight. They run with protesters, lap up shots from ...

List of 1000s of missing raises doubts in Mexico
Federal police officer Luis Angel Leon Rodriguez disappeared in 2009 along with six fellow police as they headed to the western state of Michoacan to ...

Joe Allbritton, 87, DC media, banking giant dies
Joe L. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men through a media conglomerate of newspapers and television stations and a ...