Over 30 % of Chile's population still approves of General Augusto Pinochet staging a military coup d'état nearly half a century ago to topple Socialist President Salvador Allende, according to a ...

In the 1970s, he supported the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, who was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet in 1973. On the day of the coup, on September 9, 1973, Allende ...

By the time he died, he was known as Chile's most important intellectual, a friend of the democratically elected leader Salvador Allende and a vocal opponent of Pinochet. Neruda planned to go into ...

Allende committed suicide by shooting himself during the September 11, 1973 coup, having vowed not to be taken alive as Pinochet's troops stormed the presidential palace.

Allende Examines the Caribbean’s Chaotic ... our own time:… News of the death of former military dictator Augusto Pinochet has rocked the South American nation of Chile, prompting widespread ...

Thousands of Chileans came to Canada after General Pinochet toppled President Salvador Allende's Marxist government in a 1973 military coup. Three years after Pinochet's death, the city's Chilean ...

General Pinochet had seized power from the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. He stepped down in 1990 but retained the post of commander-in-chief of the army for another eight ...

President Salvador Allende’s military commander who was slain while in exile in Argentina, has worked for many years to help bring a case against former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet for the ...