Salvador Allende

Say yes to "No." An entire country did, causing a political earthquake that uprooted a tenacious dictatorship and formed the basis of this smart, involving and provocative new film. Starring Gael García Bernal, "No" is inspired by a real-life 1988...

Nobel Prize winning poet Pablo Neruda's body will be exhumed and autopsied, a judge ruled this week. An investigation of Neruda's death was opened in 2011, 38 years after he died of what was said to be malnutrition or cancer. Judge Mario Carroza ordered...

Chile tuvo, durante décadas, una fecha divisoria en su historia con el 11 de septiembre de 1973, día en que Augusto Pinochet derrocó al presidente constitucional Salvador Allende con un sangriento bombardeo de la casa de gobierno. Pero más recientemente,...

Chris Marker, an enigmatic figure in French cinema who avoided publicity and was loath to screen his films yet was often ranked with countrymen Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard as an avant-garde master, died at his home in Paris on Sunday, his 91st...

Isabel Allende estuvo esta semana en la Universidad Internacional de Florida (FIU) y deleitó al público asistente mientras relataba anécdotas y vivencias personales impregnadas de un inteligente sentido del humor. La escritora chilena vino a Miami para...

A Chilean judge is expected to rule soon on whether to exhume the body of Nobel Prize winning poet Pablo Neruda to test whether he was poisoned in the aftermath of the 1973 overthrow of President Salvador Allende...

WHEN GEN. Augusto Pinochet breathed his last on Dec. 10, this much seemed clear to everybody in Chile: The man who had lived his whole life and never paid for even one of his crimes had done it again. Once more — one final time — everybody...

El Festival de Cine Brasileño de Miami celebra su 15avo aniversario estrenando un paquete de películas recientemente producidas en Brasil. Algunos títulos recomendados son los siguientes: VIPs *** Fernando Meirelles, laureado director de Ciudad de Dios,...

IN 1995, I went to Chile's National Stadium to watch a soccer match. Soccer was something I neither enjoyed nor understood, but the game was hardly on my mind; instead, it was the arena. I was 20 years old and had come to Chile to study. I also hoped to...

A Chilean judge has formally requested the extradition of a former US Navy officer to face homicide charges in connection with the murders of two US citizens after the 1973 overthrow of President Allende, the subject of the Oscar winning film "Missing"...

Bogota election: Former leftist guerrilla and senator Gustavo Petro wins the mayor's race in Bogota, Colombia....