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Augusto Pinochet

July 2024

  • man wearing tweed suit and blue shirt holds papers

    Adoptee stolen at birth sues Chile over thousands of dictatorship-era thefts

    Jimmy Lippert Thyden González alleges country engaged in plan to steal babies from perceived enemies in 70s and 80s

April 2024

  • Sean and Emily with their birth mother, Sara, outside her house in Santiago, Chile

    She was told her babies were dead. Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on?

    Four families torn apart by Chile’s illegal adoption scandal finally found each other decades later. They describe the emotional moment they met – and how they pieced together the lives they had spent apart

March 2024

  • Illustration: Sr.Garcia/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive – Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America – podcast

    From 2020: During the 1970s and 80s, eight US-backed military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice. By Giles Tremlett

December 2023

  • A person holds a flag that reads ‘against’ as voters take part in a referendum on a new Chilean constitution, in Santiago, Chile

    Chile votes to reject new conservative constitution which threatened rights of women

  • Pedro Barrientos, a former Chilean army officer, is deported to Chile from the US to face trial for the killing of singer-songwriter Victor Jara

    Extradition of singer’s alleged killer raises hopes of justice for Pinochet era

November 2023

  • Joan Jara<br>Victor Jara's widow Joan Jara poses for a picture during an interview with The Associated Press in Santiago, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. The murder of Jara, who was tortured and shot to death underneath a stadium where 5,000 supporters of ousted President Salvador Allende were detained during the first days of Chile's 1973 coup, has never been solved. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

    Joan Jara obituary

    British dancer who sought justice for her husband, the Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, murdered during the Pinochet regime
  • Joan Jara stands next to the coffin containing the remains of her husband during his funeral in Santiago on 5 December 2009.

    Joan Jara, British dancer and Victor Jara’s widow, dies aged 96

    The human rights activist died two weeks before her husband’s killer is due for extradition from US to Chile
  • ‘Madly in love from the start’ … Augusto Góngora and Paulina Urrutia in The Eternal Memory

    The Eternal Memory review – potent portrait of a devoted couple dealing with Alzheimer’s

    Oscar-nominated Maite Alberdi’s empathic documentary witnesses a love surviving the devastation of worsening dementia

October 2023

  • Anti-Pinochet protestors outside the London Clinic in 1998.

    ‘We followed him everywhere’: Chilean exiles 25 years on from Pinochet’s UK arrest

    Members of the London Picket recall hounding the dictator after his pivotal London arrest in 1998

11 September 2023

  • An image of Salvador Allende, who was deposed in the 1973 coup. ‘Problems with democracy can always be solved … and a coup d’état is never justifiable,’ Boric said on Monday.

    Chile president gives staunch defence of democracy, 50 years after Pinochet coup

    Gabriel Boric makes speech outside palace where Salvador Allende was overthrown in 1973, ushering in brutal military dictatorship
  • Gabriel Boric speaks during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the military coup that toppled the government of Salvador Allende

    The Guardian view on the other 9/11: Pinochet’s dictatorship casts a lengthening shadow

    Editorial: Washington should come clean about its role in the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, as it is seen as part of attempts to destabilise leftwing governments in Latin America

    • The US can rebuild trust abroad – by declassifying incriminating intelligence

      David Adler and Misty Rebik

    • ‘A fascist tried to electrocute us on stage’: the musicians who took on the Chilean junta

    • ‘It became an obsession’: the long search for the remains of Pinochet’s victims

10 September 2023

  • a black and white still of a man looking down at a black and white tiled floor in a grand room, wearing a soldier's hat and a cloak

    El Conde review – Pinochet rises from the dead in Pablo Larraín’s gothic horror

    The Chilean dictator returns as a vampire – and his family’s out for blood. But this alternative history, though entertaining, feels​ politically enigmatic

3 September 2023

  • Men in civilian clothing carrying automatic weapons as they exit a building

    Fifty years on: the lasting tragedy of Chile’s coup

  • Santiago, Chile, September 1973: after the coup, soldiers force people at gunpoint to remove Unidad Popular wall texts

    The big picture
    The big picture: an image that defined Chile’s brutal 1973 coup

August 2023

  • Chilling … Jaime Vadell in El Conde.

    El Conde review – Pablo Larraín’s horror-satire pitches Pinochet as a vampire

    Macabre alt-history faces the ongoing agony of Chile, and the Chilean people’s struggle to confront their past, with graphic-novel energy and directness
  • A woman works to restore a mural in honour of those executed and disappeared under the Pinochet dictatorship, featuring the question ‘where are they?’

    Chile announces much-anticipated plan to search for Pinochet’s victims

    Chilean state finally assumes responsibility for finding those executed and forcibly disappeared under dictatorship
  • Former detainee Hector Hipolito Alvarez, poses for a photo inside of the dressing room of the National Stadium, which was used as a prison and place of torture, and where he was detained on Sept. 20, 1973, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. Alvarez was at the stadium for a presentation in honor of Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara who was murdered during the coup of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

    The coup in Chile, 50 years on

    Letters: Alan Angell points out that there was widespread opposition to the military regime in the UK. Plus letters from David Purdy and Nick Moss
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