These days politics and advertising go hand in hand. Mayors stage photo ops. The Bush administration compared the Iraq war to rolling out a new product. And just last year, Barack Obama and Mitt ...
SANTIAGO, CHILE — Longtime Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was memorialized Tuesday in a military funeral designed to bolster his battered image. But as the former strongman was given full military ...
Some in Chile celebrated with champagne but for others, there was no joy in death of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, only the sense of a final injustice committed by the dictator who brutally ruled the country ...
Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year dictatorship carried out thousands of political killings, widespread torture and illegal jailings, clung to life in a Chilean hospital Sunday after suffering a ...
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) on Thursday sparked anger with his suggestion that murderous tactics that were deployed by the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet be used on a reported undocumented ...
Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarizes public opinion in his native Chile in death as he did in life, will be cremated on Tuesday following a military funeral. Scores of relatives, friends ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A number of Patriot Prayer supporters, including group leader Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, wore t-shirts at the Saturday protest in Portland that read: Pinochet did nothing wrong.
There is an old saying: If you're going to attack the king, make sure you kill him. In the case of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, five U.S. presidents—from Jimmy Carter to George W.
Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was indicted on human rights charges Thursday and placed under house arrest, hours after he made bail on unrelated corruption charges filed only a day ...
When is a murderous dictatorship not so bad? A number of pundits seem eager to ask this question as once inspiring popular uprisings, from Egypt to Syria to Ukraine, start looking less and less likely ...
Last week, a small crowd of noisy, mature women stood in front of a house in La Dehesa, a wealthy suburb of Santiago, Chile. They were singing and chanting, waving Chilean flags and holding posters of ...
Last Saturday, two of Chile’s top soccer teams met in the semifinal of a national competition. More than 30,000 fans went to the stadium; most cheered Colo-Colo’s 3-0 victory, but Cobreloa supporters ...