Tag: Augusto Pinochet

• Tuesday, March 8th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Chilean Deputies pass State of Exception for southern provinces

  

  Chile's Lower House Monday passed 73 votes in favor, 41 against, and five abstentions the renewal of the State of Exception in four southern provinces in the Bíobio and La Araucanía regions. The measure still has to be approved by the Senate.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Chile: Pinochet's widow Lucía Hiriart dies aged 99

  

  Lucía Hiriart, the widow of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, has died at her home in Santiago at the age of 99, her family announced Thursday.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 09:16 UTC

  Chilean court upholds convictions against DINA torturers

  

  Former operatives of Chile's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) have been convicted earlier this week for crimes against humanity committed during Augusto Pinochet's military regime (1973-1990).

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:02 UTC

  Embarrassing private messages by Brazilian President disclosed

  

  Brazilian news outlets Thursday revealed embarrassing private Whatsapp messages from President Jair Bolsonaro which included homophobic remarks and words of praise for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

• Monday, September 13th 2021 - 08:29 UTC

  Arrests, protests and looting in Santiago on the anniversary of the military coup

  

  Some eleven people were arrested in Chile following the rioting and looting in Santiago on the 48th anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet that in September 1973 overthrew the government of democratically elected Socialist president Salvador Allende.

• Monday, September 13th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  Australian intelligence worked with the CIA in the Chilean coup of 1973

  

  Australia was involved in espionage operations in Chile during the seventies, in support of the United States CIA agency activities conspiring against the democratically elected government of Socialist Salvador Allende, ousted by the military 48 years ago.

• Monday, June 21st 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  Piñera sets July 4 as opening day for Chile's Constitutional Convention

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera Sunday announced the new constituent assembly is scheduled to open sessions on July 4,

• Monday, June 14th 2021 - 10:05 UTC

  Chilean dictatorship murderer arrested in Argentina

  

  The Government of Argentina this weekend arrested Chilean fugitive Walter Klug Rivera, who was wanted for human rights violations during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

• Monday, May 17th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Chileans vote against traditional politicians and demand substantial reforms

  

  None of Chile's traditional political parties has managed to win at least one-third of the seats at stake in this past weekend's elections to appoint a new Constituent Assembly which will have to write up a new constitution to replace the one from 1980 which was inherited from Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Chile going to polls this weekend to elect Constitutional Convention to replace Pinochet-era text

  

  Chile is about to write another chapter in its history this coming weekend when members of an Assembly to write up a new constitution to replace the one left by the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet are elected.