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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A dramatic shift to the extreme right threatens the future—and past—for human rights and accountability. This past Monday morning, Chileans awoke to a new reality. Some 35 years after the return to ...

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(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, ...

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 ...

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 ...