With Machu Picchu being an essential aspect of South America’s shared folk history, and a symbol of hope and spirituality for many people across the continent, the sight and sound of a Chilean rock ...

The recent television series tells the story of the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez’s operatives, who sought to overthrow Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1980s.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font strongly condemned opposition leader Evelyn Matthei’s justification of the 1973 coup ...

When Philippe Sands was researching his 2020 bestseller The Ratline he came across a letter held in the dusty family archive of a crumbling schloss in Austria. It was addressed to Otto von Wächter, ...

The $1 trillion that Musk claimed DOGE would save has been downgraded to $150 billion, and even this figure might not stand ...

By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is drawing on a deep history of U.S. involvement in ...

In 1998, London barrister Philippe Sands was asked to represent Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet in his claim for diplomatic immunity against charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

“Augusto Pinochet was a dictator, essentially anti-democratic, whose government killed, tortured, exiled, and made disappear those who thought differently. He was also corrupt and a thief,” he ...

As the term of the Chilean president Gabriel Boric winds to a close, the candidates hoping to succeed him are putting their ...

For more than a decade in the 1970s and ’80s I worked as a translator with the Chilean writer Fernando Alegría, who at the time was chairman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at ...

In his first, 22-year stretch as prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad transformed Malaysia’s economy. But he was also accused of being a strongman and antisemite. In an interview, he offers a ...