Gen Pinochet's immunity is judged on a case-by-case basis Chile's former military ruler, Gen Augusto Pinochet, is to be prosecuted over the case of a murdered chemist and secret police agent, a judge ...

Chilean police have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters angry at a court decision that former military ruler General Augusto Pinochet is not fit to stand trial for ...

A Chilean appeals court stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution Friday so he can face new charges for abuse of funds in a $27 million tax fraud case. Subscribe to ...

On Sept. 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a successful military coup against the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende and proceeded to rule Chile for the next 17 years ...

The investigation of money laundering at Riggs Bank has helped reopen efforts in Chile to hold former dictator Augusto Pinochet accountable for alleged human rights violations during his 17-year rule.

At least 3,200 people were killed by army death squads under Pinochet, including 1,200 whose bodies remain unaccounted for. The fact that the corpses had not been found in a number of cases was used ...

Peter Schaad, a Swiss businessman and friend of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, calls the man who terrorized the Chilean people for 17 years "a tough old fox" and "a patriot." Schaad appears in ...

Chile’s Supreme Court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution Thursday, paving the way for possible trial of the former dictator on charges of human rights abuses. The court voted ...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was indicted on human rights charges Thursday and placed under house arrest, hours after he made bail on unrelated corruption charges filed ...

In part two of a two-part series, Elizabeth Farnsworth reports on the indictment of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for kidnapping and murder. Now, the Chile story. Today attorneys for former ...

Patricio Guzman, a Chilean now living in Paris, began work on this wrenching 2001 documentary after hearing that General Augusto Pinochet had been arrested in London to be tried in Spain for murders ...

Having a made a name for himself with a trilogy of documentaries about Salvador Allende's brief socialist revolution and Pinochet's ensuing putsch called The Battle for Chile -- considered classics of ...