He either died by his own hand or by soldiers storming in during a military coup. And the details of what happened nearly 38 years after Chile President Salvador Allende died still hold much ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – A scientific autopsy has confirmed that Chilean President Salvador Allende committed suicide during the 1973 coup that toppled his socialist government, court officials announced on ...

When Gen. Augusto Pinochet waged a military coup against President Salvador Allende, it was the start of nearly two decades of government repression in Chile. Thousands of people were disappeared, ...

To the editor: Ariel Dorfman may be excused for celebrating Salvador Allende’s election as president of Chile in 1970. Fifty years ago Dorfman was, no doubt, an idealistic young person and had no way ...

Addressing the UN General Assembly, Chilean President Salvador Allende accuses US corporations of seeking to foment Chilean civil war and instituting a worldwide boycott of his country’s exports.

People attend an event to pay homage to former Chilean President Salvador Allende and to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the military coup against Allende, near La Moneda Palace in Santiago, ...

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On the year of the 50th anniversary of the CIA-backed coup which overthrew President Salvador Allende and installed the fascist-military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Jacobin magazine is ...

Chile’s Constitutional Court (CC) voted Thursday 8-2 in favor of removing Isabel Allende -daughter of former President Salvador Allende- in connection with her involvement in the attempt to have ...

Hortensia Bussi, the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende who helped lead opposition to the military dictatorship that ousted her socialist husband in a bloody 1973 coup, died Thursday. She was ...

Isabel Allende is no stranger to the experience of being an immigrant and refugee. When a military coup overthrew the Chilean presidency in 1973—led by her cousin, Salvador Allende—her family fled to ...