SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian judge ruled Thursday that a woman wanted in Chile on kidnapping charges dating to Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in the 1970s can be...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Amid a year of contagion and turmoil, Chileans turned out Sunday to vote overwhelmingly in favor of having a constitutional convention draft a new charter to replace guiding...

MADRID (AP) — Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda, author of the novel “The Old Man Who Read Love Stories,” has died after a six-week battle with the new coronavirus. He was 70 years old.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on Saturday announced the suspension of a subway fare hike that had prompted violent student protests, less than a day after he declared a...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday criticized U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, a former Chilean president, by praising the 1973 military coup that led...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Two months before Tamara Lagos was born in 1984, her father was killed by agents of the Chilean dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

NEW YORK (AP) — Somewhere in the shadows of federal bureaucracy, there was an issue about the drinking habits of Augusto Pinochet.

The National Security Archive, an advocate for open...

NEW YORK (AP) — Somewhere in the shadows of federal bureaucracy, there was an issue about the drinking habits of Augusto Pinochet.

The National Security Archive, an advocate for open...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Authorities say a former commander in chief of the Chilean army has been arrested and charged for involvement torturing 24 people following a 1973 military coup.

Retired Gen. Juan Emilio Cheyre was taken into custody Thursday on orders from a local judge.

Cheyre had previously been sentenced to three years for covering up the killing of 15 left-wing militants while a deputy regiment commander. He was the army's commander from 2002-2006.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Six people were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison Wednesday for the 1982 death of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, marking a historic ruling in the highest profile murder case from Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

Judge Alejandro Madrid ruled that Frei Montalva was poisoned to death with "toxic substances" that were gradually introduced into his body while he was hospitalized at a private clinic.

This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean that were published in the past week.

Immigrants still expressed hope of getting asylum in the U.S., though they will no longer be released into the United States while their cases play out under a new agreement between the Mexican and U.S. governments requiring them to wait instead in Mexico.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — One of Chile's leading human rights advocates died Friday at age 93 without knowing the fate of her husband, two children and pregnant daughter-in-law who were forcibly disappeared during the country's dictatorship.

Ana Gonzalez died in a hospital in Santiago after years of suffering from breathing problems.

This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean published in the past week.

Haitians eking out livings picked through the garbage dump for the capital, while some people in Argentina are starting to go hungry as the nation's economic crisis begins to hit the poorer portions of the population.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The marine commander gave an order to Chief Petty Officer Pienovi, who moments before had obeyed an order to help send his own wife to a torture center.

"Take her!" he demanded — referring to the couple's frantic and shouting 9-year old child. And so he did, the daughter now recalls, raping his own child on the spot.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet was 23 years old when she was tortured and fled her country's dictatorship into exile. Now, more than four decades later, she will face her past fighting such abuses worldwide as the new U.N. human rights chief.

Bachelet, 66, is often seen smiling, chatting easily or tossing unplanned comments or jokes into her speeches. But behind her good humor lie haunting memories of the brutal dictatorship that tore her family apart.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the seizure of more than $1.6 million from the assets of the late dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

The top court also sentenced three former military officers to four years in prison for embezzlement of public funds in a case involving Pinochet, but allowed them to remain free under conditional liberty.

The court said the money cannot remain with Pinochet's family because it comes from an illegal origin.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Eight retired soldiers have been sentenced to 18 years in prison for one of the most emblematic murders of Chile's military dictatorship: the murder of folk singer Victor Jara and a government official.

The office of the court system announced the ruling on Tuesday, and it said a ninth veteran was sentenced to five years for cover-up.

TEMUCO, Chile (AP) — Pope Francis took the Chilean state and the country's largest indigenous group to task Wednesday over their failure to forge a truly unified nation, saying the government must do more than just negotiate "elegant" agreements and radical Mapuche factions must stop violence.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A team of international scientists said Friday that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A judge in Chile is charging six people in connection with the 1982 death of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva.

The judiciary said in a statement Friday that his death was caused by "toxic substances" that were gradually introduced into his body. He had been hospitalized at a private clinic.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean lawmakers have approved a bill that would legalize abortion in limited circumstances and end the socially conservative country's status as the last in South America with a blanket ban on the procedure.

The measure approved late Wednesday allows abortions when a woman's life is in danger, when a fetus is not viable and in cases of rape. President Michelle Bachelet, a physician and former head of U.N. Women, backs the bill and has said she will sign it into law.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Thousands of Chileans are staging demonstrations to demand changes in the country's pension system, which was once considered a global model.

Sunday's demonstrators say the privately managed system needs profound reforms because many Chileans wind up with retirement benefits below the minimum salary of about $390.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government can file an extradition request to the United States for two former secret police agents wanted for a 1976 car bombing in Washington that killed a former Chilean ambassador and a U.S. citizen.

This week in Latin America saw Chileans marking the 43rd anniversary of the 1973 military coup that toppled President Salvador Allende and remembering the estimated 40,000 people killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's subsequent dictatorship.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Violeta Zuniga gets around with a cane because of her knee problems, but nothing can keep the 83-year-old from performing Chile's national dance to protest her partner's disappearance during the country's military dictatorship.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A former commander in chief of the Chilean army was arrested Thursday and charged with complicity in the killing of 15 left-wing militants at the start of the country's military dictatorship in 1973.

Retired Gen. Juan Emilio Cheyre was taken into custody on orders from Judge Mario Carroza, one of several judges who investigate human rights crimes in Chile.

Cheyre, the army's commander in 2002-2006, has repeatedly denied the charges leveled...