Tag: Augusto Pinochet

• Saturday, October 24th 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Chileans vote on Sunday to amend a constitution which has meant stability but also elitism and privilege

  

  Chileans will go to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether they want to swap a constitution written during the Pinochet dictatorship with a new document written by a specially elected citizens' body.

• Monday, September 14th 2020 - 11:45 UTC

  Dozens of arrests in Santiago on the 47th anniversary of the Pinochet coup that deposed president Allende

  

  Chilean police said that on Saturday that more than 100 people were arrested after clashes marking the 47th anniversary of the coup d'etat that overthrew the populist leftist government of Salvador Allende.

• Saturday, November 16th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Chilean parties agree on mechanisms to replace the Pinochet era constitution

  

  Chilean lawmakers agreed on Friday to hold a referendum next April on replacing the country’s unpopular Pinochet-era constitution, bowing to demands of protesters who say the country’s decades-old social model has created deep inequality.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Piñera admits “everything has changed in Chile”, but he won't resign and is sure of ending his mandate

  

  Chile’s embattled President Sebastian Piñera has rejected the notion of resigning and believes he will reach the end of his term in just over two years despite intense anti-government protests that are roiling the country, according to an interview with the BBC.

• Sunday, September 22nd 2019 - 22:59 UTC

  Bachelet pities Brazil over Bolsonaro's support to Pinochet

  

  The United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Saturday she felt “sorry for Brazil,” after President Jair Bolsonaro publicly expressed his support for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

• Monday, September 9th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Thousands march in Santiago de Chile to honor victims of Pinochet's dictatorship

  

  Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Santiago de Chile on Sunday to honour the victims of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, in a march that started peacefully but ended in violence.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 03:23 UTC

  Piñera says both Allende and Pinochet belong in Chile's presidential wax museum

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera Tuesday said both his predecessors Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet belong in the wax museum in the Las Condes area in Santiago.

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 07:30 UTC

  US Justice has requested Chile the arrest of arms and bombs manufacturer tycoon

  

  For 26 years, Chilean business tycoon Carlos Cardoen has been unable to travel abroad for fear of arrest. Cardoen is accused of illegally importing the bomb-making element zirconium from the US, which added a potent incendiary effect to cluster bombs his company, Cardoen Industries, sold to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime in the 1980s and 1990s.

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 08:38 UTC

  Pinochet's top lady spy and alleged torturer arrested in Australia

  

  Australian police have arrested a Chilean woman living in Sydney over her alleged involvement in a kidnapping during the military rule of Gen Augusto Pinochet in the South American country. Adriana Rivas worked as a secretary for the infamous chief of Chile's secret police force, Manuel Contreras.

• Thursday, January 31st 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Chilean Justice makes history: Six people sentenced for the murder of ex-president Eduardo Frei Montalva

  

  Six people were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for the 1982 death of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, marking a historic ruling in the highest profile murder case from Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.