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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Thousands of Chileans including President Michelle Bachelet paid their respects Friday to a folk singer who became a martyr of the country's 1973 military coup and whose remains will be reburied following a search for clues to identify his killers.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Six people have been charged with killing former Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva, an outspoken opponent of dictator Augusto Pinochet, in 1982.
TEMUCUICUI, Chile | Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has turned to dictatorship-era measures to quell the violence. The government of President Michelle Bachelet is prosecuting Mapuche activists with secret evidence, protected witnesses and other tough aspects of an ...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A Chilean judge ruled Monday that former President Eduardo Frei Montalva was assassinated nearly 30 years ago and his killing covered up by people linked to the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Six people were charged in the case.
SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- BlackRock Inc.'s (BLK) iShares made their debut on Chile's Santiago Stock Exchange on Wednesday, with 25 exchange-traded funds.
SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's approval rating fell to 77% in November, from a record high 80% the previous month, according to an opinion poll published Wednesday by conservative polling institute Adimark GfK.
Wayne Bernhardson is the author of the just-published "Moon Chile" (Avalon Travel, $22.95). He has traveled extensively there; his blog about traveling in Chile and Argentina is at www.southernconetravel.com.Bernhardson, 62, is originally from Fargo, N.D.
SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Chilean presidential candidates Sebastian Pinera and Eduardo Frei will likely face each in a January runoff presidential election, as neither will obtain a solid majority in Sunday's presidential election, a poll released Wednesday shows.
SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--Chile posted a $1.08 billion trade surplus in November, growing from a $252.4 million surplus for the same month a year earlier, the central bank reported Monday.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Cencosud SA , Chile’s biggest retailer by sales, will restart work this month on its Costanera Center real-estate project in Santiago as the economy recovers from its steepest slump in a decade.
Thousands of Chileans including President Michelle Bachelet paid their respects Friday to a folk singer who became a martyr of the country's 1973 military coup and whose remains will be reburied following a search for clues...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Cruzados SADP , which runs Chile’s Universidad Catolica soccer club, climbed 4.8 percent in its trading debut after raising 12.4 billion pesos ($24.7 million) in Santiago’s second initial public offering this week.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- The body of popular Chilean singer Victor Jara, tortured and shot to death in a 1973 military coup, has been laid to rest once again in a Santiago cemetery.
-(Dow Jones)- Chile will be admitted into the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development later this month, President Michelle Bachelet said in a conference in Portugal.
Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) has lived for the past 23 years with a vibrant, wealthy Valdez family in Santiago, Chile. But as the family maid, her existence is complicated. She sees the Valdez family at their most intimate moments: the husband's naked body as he rushes to the shower, the teenage boy's stained sheets. by Felicia Feaster Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) has lived for the past 23 years ...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Cruzados SADP , which runs Chile’s Universidad Catolica soccer club, rallied as much as 8 percent in its first day of trading after raising 12.4 billion pesos ($24.7 million) in Santiago’s second initial public offering this week.
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