Patricio Guzmán’s plaintive and surprisingly intimate documentary, “Salvador Allende,” is no conventional portrait of the Chilean president, whose death in 1973 prefaced 18 years of oppression in the ...

Forty-one years ago—on September 11, 1973—Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a coup. He committed suicide under mysterious circumstances as troops surrounded his palace, ...

Chile's Salvador Allende died in a United States-backed coup on 11 September 1973 - three years earlier he had become Latin America's first democratically-elected Marxist president. The Chilean poet ...

When Gen. Augusto Pinochet waged a military coup against President Salvador Allende, it was the start of nearly two decades of government repression in Chile. Thousands of people were disappeared, ...

A suspect accused of torturing and murdering Chilean folk singer Victor Jara following a 1973 violent right-wing military coup has been arrested in Florida. Chilean President Salvador Allende died ...

Underscoring its historical importance, a further production marking the 50 th death anniversary of Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende could well be in the works. The historical drama, ...

The remains of Chile's former President Salvador Allende will be exhumed as part of an inquiry into historic rights abuses, a court has ordered. Investigators are trying to determine whether Allende ...