FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2009, file photo, a supporter of Chile's late President Salvador Allende touches a flower arrangement with an image of him during a demonstration outside La Moneda ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Relatives of the late Chilean President Salvador Allende have asked a judge to exhume his body in a renewed inquiry into his death. The socialist leader is believed to have committed ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – The remains of Salvador Allende’s vice president, Jose Toha, were reburied Monday in an emotional ceremony after nearly two years of examinations by forensic pathologists to ...

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OBERLIN, Ohio -- Sept. 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the coup which toppled the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile, leading to a brutal 17-year-long dictatorship whose ...

The City Council in San Miguel, Chile, has approved the name change for the Salvador Allende Avenue back to its previous denomination of Salesianos Avenue. The measure was approved by 5 to 4, Mayor ...

Left: Supporters pay homage to former President Salvador Allende on the 41st anniversary of the coup in Chile, September 11, 2014. Right: Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro at a news conference in ...

Chile’s state television channel has reported that long-secret documents support the theory that President Salvador Allende may have been assassinated and did not commit suicide during the 1973 coup.

Patricio Guzmán’s plaintive and surprisingly intimate documentary, “Salvador Allende,” is no conventional portrait of the Chilean president, whose death in 1973 prefaced 18 years of oppression in the ...

The Venezuelan president calls on American society to to be ‘alert to avoid a war in the Caribbean and in South America’ ...

When Gen. Augusto Pinochet waged a military coup against President Salvador Allende, it was the start of nearly two decades of government repression in Chile. Thousands of people were disappeared, ...

Addressing the UN General Assembly, Chilean President Salvador Allende accuses US corporations of seeking to foment Chilean civil war and instituting a worldwide boycott of his country’s exports.