SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Viola remembers the terror of being naked in front of her captors, the blows to her body and the pain. Carlos recounts being barely able to ...

VILLA BAVIERA (Reuters) -Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet’s military regime as the government ...

When Chile's German-themed settlement Villa Baviera was known as Colonia Dignidad, it was the home of a brutal cult used for torturing and killing dissidents under ...

(Bloomberg) -- During Marcelo’s first week in Santiago I prison, he was glad when his fellow inmates handed him a phone so he could call his girlfriend and family. Before the night was over, the same ...

SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Sunday proposed special pensions and other reparations for more than 28,000 Chileans who were tortured by government agents during the country's ...

The fate of a Bondi nanny fighting extradition over allegations she tortured seven victims while working as an agent for a secret police force in Chile’s Pinochet regime has been decided. Adriana ...

Pamela Constable notes in her July 17 Outlook article "Torture's Echoes" that Chile was, before the military coup, "an unusually law-abiding and democratic country." But Ms. Constable should move the ...

SANTIAGO, CHILE - Three decades after being imprisoned and tortured during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Mireya Garcia is among 27,000 Chileans who will finally get government ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean court on Tuesday increased the prison sentence for six former soldiers convicted in one of the most notorious killings by the former military dictatorship — the ...

VILLA BAVIERA (Reuters) -Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's military regime as the government ...