Augusto Pinochet

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

Naomi Larsson Piñeda. Portraits: Sofía Yanjarí

27, Apr, 2024 @12:00 PM

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

Current constitution dating back to the dictatorship of Gen Augusto Pinochet will now stay in place after two drafts were rejected in referendums

John Bartlett in Santiago

18, Dec, 2023 @1:32 AM

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

Pedro Barrientos touched down in Santiago on Friday to face trial for murder of folk singer Víctor Jara in 1973

John Bartlett in Santiago

03, Dec, 2023 @12:30 PM

Joan Jara obituary

British dancer who sought justice for her husband, the Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, murdered during the Pinochet regime

Nick Caistor

21, Nov, 2023 @4:46 PM

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

John Bartlett in Santiago

15, Nov, 2023 @2:18 PM

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

Leslie Felperin

08, Nov, 2023 @11:00 AM

‘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

Charis McGowan

16, Oct, 2023 @5:00 AM

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

John Bartlett in Santiago

11, Sep, 2023 @7:48 PM

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

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

Editorial

11, Sep, 2023 @6:02 PM

The US can rebuild trust abroad – by declassifying incriminating intelligence | David Adler and Misty Rebik

We just returned from a delegation to Brazil, Chile and Colombia. Each country is still seeking answers about the history of US intervention

David Adler and Misty Rebik

11, Sep, 2023 @10:02 AM

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

Under Pinochet, artistic expression in Chile was its own form of resistance. Fifty years on from the coup, performers are keeping the flame of protest alight

Naomi Larsson Piñeda

11, Sep, 2023 @10:00 AM

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

As Chile marks 50 years since the coup, women who have scoured the desert for remains of their husbands fear the brutality of the death squads will be forgotten

John Bartlett in Calama

11, Sep, 2023 @4:00 AM