Augusto Pinochet

America Last: The Right’s Century-long Romance with Foreign Dictators: excavation of US fascism

Jacob Heilbrunn’s exploration of the history of US authoritarianism makes it clear the re-election of Trump would turbo-charge the forces of fascism

Wed May 22 2024 - 05:00

El Conde: The ghosts of fascism past are back in their very own Gothic horror

A deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival

Tue Sept 12 2023 - 21:03

Pablo Larraín on his Pinochet film: ‘It’s a vampire movie. It’s also a farce. It deals with horrific, horrific people’

The Chilean director whose previous films include Jackie, about Jackie Kennedy, and Spencer, about Princess Diana, turns his attention to the dictator who ruled his country for 17 years

Sat Sept 09 2023 - 05:15

In Chile’s edgy Barrio Yungay, a progressive president moves in

Gabriel Boric shuns more affluent areas to live in a working-class neighbourhood

Thu Mar 10 2022 - 17:36

UK ‘changing position’ on North prosecution amnesty, ex-officer says

Government engaging in ‘more meaningful way’, says former Operation Kenova chief

Tue Feb 15 2022 - 22:01

The Irish Times view on Chile’s new president: a step to the left

The election of 35-year-old Gabriel Boric is a landmark moment

Thu Dec 23 2021 - 00:02

Chile shifts to the left as Gabriel Boric wins presidential election

35-year-old leader of progressive coalition has pledged to tackle high levels of inequality

Mon Dec 20 2021 - 16:49

Chile abandons the centre in watershed presidential election

Voters go to polls on Sunday for most polarised ballot since return of democracy

Fri Dec 17 2021 - 17:55

Chile headed for divisive presidential race as far-right outsider tops poll

Ultra-conservative candidate has denied Pinochet regime was a dictatorship

Mon Nov 22 2021 - 12:04

The Irish-Canadian couple who campaigned together in Pinochet’s Chile

Bridget Coll and Chris Morrissey met as nuns in New York in the 1960s

Tue Aug 03 2021 - 00:00

Chile votes to rewrite constitution, sparking mass celebrations

78 per cent of people back a new charter to replace one imposed in Pinochet era

Mon Oct 26 2020 - 17:31

Crisis consumes Chile ahead of vote on replacing constitution

Further unrest as protesters say they are living in a two-tier society

Wed Oct 21 2020 - 19:00

Former Spanish minister faces grilling from Argentinian judge over deaths

Rodolfo Martín Villa will testify via video over allegations of 12 killings

Wed Sept 02 2020 - 17:10

‘They came into the house. They broke my teeth’

Carmen Castillo, survivor of the 1970s coup in Chile, is still fighting oppression

Sat Mar 14 2020 - 06:00

Chile prosecutor seeks to investigate 14 police officers

Court approval sought by official to scrutinise allegations protesters have been tortured

Wed Nov 06 2019 - 20:40

Support for Chilean president Pinera lowest since Pinochet era amid unrest

Inequality and spiralling living costs ignite massive protests

Mon Oct 28 2019 - 08:59

Irishman living in Chile: ‘I look out my window and see soldiers clutching rifles’

‘I, like thousands of others, am working from home ... things are tense, protests continue in Santiago’

Tue Oct 22 2019 - 10:47

Former Thatcher adviser and PR guru Tim Bell dies

Adman co-founded and chaired Bell Pottinger

Mon Aug 26 2019 - 12:48

The Remainder review: bearing the burden of Chile’s past

Alia Trabucco Zerán explores repercussions of the Pinochet era on the next generation

Sat Oct 06 2018 - 06:00

Living in Chile, a country deeply ill at ease in its inequality

Reading about Ireland from afar, I’m increasingly concerned it won’t be so different

Tue Sept 04 2018 - 11:00

Fintan O'Toole: There is nothing undemocratic about voting again on Brexit

Second thoughts are the essence of democracy. The Brexit promised in 2016 has vanished so it is time to ask the people again

Sat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00

Chile faces second round in tight presidential poll

Shock result last month sent stock market reeling, plummeting by almost 10% in the following weeks

Fri Dec 15 2017 - 18:39

Captured: How Jacob Zuma ‘sold’ South Africa to the Guptas

One family has gained extraordinary influence over a country and its politics

Thu Nov 30 2017 - 16:01

Bar brawl case harks back to Spain’s separatist violence

Youths face terrorism charges after fracas with civil guards

Tue Nov 28 2017 - 17:49

Bank of Ireland dumps scandal-hit PR firm Bell Pottinger

Irish bank says it is preparing a tender process for its UK PR business

Tue Sept 19 2017 - 06:17

Gael García Bernal: ‘You can’t separate art from politics’

Impassioned Oscars speech a sharp reminder of actor's political commitment

Fri Apr 07 2017 - 05:00

Philip Stephens: How Jeremy Corbyn has remade British politics

International revolutionaries such as Mr Corbyn are not interested in the banal politics required to gather votes at home

Fri Mar 03 2017 - 12:17

Celebration of Roger Casement symbolises Ireland’s relationship with Peru, says Higgins

President is making first State visit to the fast-growing Latin American country

Fri Feb 10 2017 - 07:22

Let us stop repeating the lie that Irish people do not protest

The legacy of Apollo House is that the public now knows change can occur

Mon Jan 16 2017 - 05:00

Latin America’s Schindler: a forgotten hero of the 20th century

Under General Pinochet’s rule of terror in Chile, one man saved thousands from the dictator’s brutal secret police. How did Roberto Kozak do it – and escape death?

Sun Dec 18 2016 - 11:20