Experts say the views of newly inaugurated president Jose Antonio Kast reflect deep dissatisfaction with the status quo.

Adriana Rivas has been a fugitive in Australia since fleeing Chile while on bail 20 years ago. A federal court hearing will determine whether she is removed to face trial for the alleged crimes of ...

Chile has elected its most Right-wing president since the Pinochet dictatorship fell, with the conservative Jose Antonio Kast defeating his communist rival. Mr Kast won 58.2 per cent of the vote in a ...

The new president, José Antonio Kast, explicitly admires Pinochet's military dictatorship ...

The inauguration of ultra-conservative president José Antonio Kast marks the South American nation’s sharpest right-wing turn ...

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Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Chileans have elected the most right-wing presidential candidate since the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship over three and a half decades ago. In a runoff held on Dec. 14, ...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who terrorized his opponents for 17 years after taking power in a bloody coup, died Sunday, putting an end to a decade of intensifying efforts to bring him to ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Ricardo Izurieta, the general who succeeded dictator Augusto Pinochet as head of Chile’s military, has died. He was 71. A statement from the Chilean army said Izurieta died at ...

The dictator has died this past Sunday. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, born into a middle class family in 1915, a late-comer to coup plotting in 1973, and subsequent figurehead of the military coup ousting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a symbol hiding in plain sight. On February 24, two weeks before his inauguration as Chile’s president, Jose Antonio Kast ...