POZO ALMONTE, Chile – In the hot sun of the Atacama Desert, located in the Tacapacá region, Texas Army National Guard (TXARNG) and Chilean combat medics are working together as part of the National ...

A former Chilean army lieutenant, who now lives in Deltona, accused of killing an iconic folk singer 50 years ago, was stripped of his U.S. citizenship Friday after the government learned he lied on ...

A Chilean Army corporal was wounded Friday afternoon after a conscript soldier accidentally discharged his service weapon at ...

More than 100 participants from the military and government of Chile, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and U.S. Army including members of U.S. Army South gathered in ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The former commander in chief of the Chilean army has been taken into custody for his alleged participation in the killing of 15 left-wing militants at the start of that country ...

U.S. Homeland Security Department officials in Florida said they took into custody a former Chilean army official wanted in Chile for “torture and extrajudicial killings” following the 1973 military ...

MIAMIMIAMI — The U.S. has expelled a former Chilean Army officer accused of torturing and killing folk singer Victor Jara during the country’s bloody 1973 coup. Pedro Barrientos had emigrated to ...

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Fifty years ago, Chile began the darkest period in its modern history. On Sept. 11, 1973, Gen. Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that included the bombing of La Moneda, the presidential palace in ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - The grandson of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was booted out of the army on Wednesday for criticising the judiciary in a highly politicised speech at his ...