Tag: Isabel Allende

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Allende's niece and a Latin woman member of Biden's cabinet will attend the inauguration of Boric in Chile

  

  Renowned Chilean Latin-American writer Isabel Allende will be part of the United States government delegation to the taking office of Chilean elected president Gabriel Boric, on Friday 11 March, according to a release from the White House.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 19:40 UTC

  The myth of the Mexican caballero defender of the downtrodden turns 100

  

  Aug 9, 1919, US writer Johnston McCulley released a story titled The Curse Of Capistrano in a Californian pulp magazine – in it was a masked and caped character named Zorro. In conceiving the sword-wielding defender of the downtrodden, McCulley set the stage for a whole century of superheroes.

• Monday, September 12th 2016 - 10:38 UTC

  Chile marked the 43 anniversary of the military coup headed by Pinochet that ousted Allende

  

  Remembering a painful past, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet said on Sunday the truth must be told and justice be served for thousands of victims of the country’s dictatorship. She made the statement as Chileans marked the 43 anniversary of the coup which ousted democratically-elected President Salvador Allende and began the 17-year-long dictatorship of General Pinochet on September 11, 1973.

• Friday, January 16th 2015 - 05:15 UTC

  Chile votes to eliminate the Pinochet electoral system, 25 years later

  

  Chile's Senate has voted to end a dictatorship-era electoral system that has squeezed out independent candidates and guaranteed an outsized presence in Congress for the centre-right and conservative blocs.

• Thursday, January 5th 2012 - 05:01 UTC

  In Chilean schools, General Pinochet’ rule will be known as “a military regime”

  

  A political row has broken out in Chile after it emerged that the Conservative government is changing the way school textbooks refer to the military rule of Gen Augusto Pinochet.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 03:19 UTC

  Chile exhumes Allende’s remains to end a long standing controversy

  

  Investigators in Chile exhumed Salvador Allende’s remains on Monday as part of an inquiry into the former president’s death in a military coup 37 years ago. Allende died during a September 1973 military attack against the presidential palace that led to 17 years of dictatorial rule.