Salvador Allende

Review: In 'No,' marketing and politics make for a lively tale

2013-02-14 15:50:00

Say yes to "No." An entire country did, causing a political earthquake that uprooted a tenacious dictatorship and formed the basis of this smart, involving and provocative new film. Starring Gael Garc�a Bernal, "No" is inspired by a real-life 1988...

Poet Pablo Neruda's remains to be exhumed, autopsied

2013-02-12 16:24:00

Nobel Prize winning poet Pablo Neruda's body will be exhumed and autopsied, a judge ruled this week. An investigation of Neruda's death was opened in 2011, 38 years after he died of what was said to be malnutrition or cancer. Judge Mario Carroza ordered...

Chris Marker dies at 91; avant-garde French filmmaker

2012-07-31 16:34:00

Chris Marker, an enigmatic figure in French cinema who avoided publicity and was loath to screen his films yet was often ranked with countrymen Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard as an avant-garde master, died at his home in Paris on Sunday, his 91st...

Brazil finally ready to confront abuses in past dictatorship

2012-01-05 16:44:00

Chilean court to rule on Neruda exhumation

2011-12-17 16:38:40

Chilean judge charges former U.S. military officer in 1973 deaths

2011-11-29 21:39:09

Former leftist guerrilla wins mayor's race in Bogota, Colombia

2011-10-30 21:38:56

The week in Latin America: Allende suicide confirmed

2011-07-22 16:35:20

ALOUD's 2011 schedule selling out fast

2011-08-29 16:34:19

Pablo Neruda's death is next to be investigated as Chile exhumes its past

2011-06-06 16:35:11

Was Nobel prizewinning poet Pablo Neruda poisoned?

2011-06-06 16:34:53

Nathaniel Davis dies at 86; U.S. ambassador to Chile when Allende was deposed

2011-05-21 00:00:00

Nathaniel Davis, a longtime diplomat who was the American ambassador to Chile when President Salvador Allende was deposed in a bloody coup, died of cancer Monday in Claremont. He was 86. His death was announced by Claremont's Harvey Mudd College, where...

Anti-Pinochet demonstrators are dispersed by a riot police water cannon in front of the Caupolican Theatre in Santiago. A ceremony honoring Pinochet has triggered a firestorm of controversy, pitting the right to free speech against relatives of regime victims who would like to see the event banned.

2012-06-10 00:00:00

A demonstrator throws stones to riot police in Santiago, during clashes following a demonstration in remembrance of late President Salvador Allende , who died during the 1973 military coup d'etat led by general Augusto Pinochet.

2011-09-11 00:00:00

A memorial at Sheridan Circle, at the other end of Embassy Row, is a sobering counterpoint. It marks the spot where former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier was killed by a car bomb along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt.

2007-06-02 00:00:00