SANTIAGO, Chile — In a surprise decision that could help former dictator Augusto Pinochet elude trial, Chile’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the retired general must undergo mental tests before he ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Carmen Hertz has never lost faith in the liberating and equalizing power of the law. Days after the 1973 coup here, she pleaded before military judges for the release of her husband, ...

The Pinochet Case, now showing at Film Forum, is a magisterial documentary about the force of memory. Patricio Guzmán —whose three-part documentary The Battle of Chile, released between 1975 and 1979, ...

Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet has won a series of legal victories over the past week that may bring an end to the most prominent of the 190 criminal lawsuits filed against him since 1998.

UNDER THE RULES of the Chilean justice system, Judge Juan Guzman of the Santiago Court of Appeals investigates, indicts, decides whether charges should go forward, presides at trial, renders a verdict ...

The Pinochet Case, now showing at Film Forum, is a magisterial documentary about the force of memory. Patricio Guzmán – whose three-part documentary The Battle of Chile, released between 1975 and 1979 ...

On the face of it, Augusto Pinochet and Hissène Habré have little in common—besides both being backed by the U.S. during the Cold War. Pinochet, the longtime Chilean president, saw himself as a ...

Peter Schaad, a Swiss businessman and friend of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, calls the man who terrorized the Chilean people for 17 years "a tough old fox" and "a patriot." Schaad appears in ...

A Chilean appeals court stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution Friday so he can face new charges for abuse of funds in a $27 million tax fraud case. Judges from the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A number of Patriot Prayer supporters, including group leader Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, wore t-shirts at the Saturday protest in Portland that read: Pinochet did nothing wrong.

On Sept. 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a successful military coup against the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende and proceeded to rule Chile for the next 17 years ...

True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure ...