BIZARRE: Gen augusto pinochet - What They Never Told You

Pinochet-era soldier jailed for killing folk singer Víctor Jara 53 years ago

Nelson Haase Mazzei was sentenced for murdering Jara in 2023, but fled from authorities in Chile

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27

Former Pinochet agents convicted over 1976 Washington DC carbomb murder

Attack targeted former Chile ambassador Orlando Letelier and his US colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt

The Guardian - US · Jun 23

After centuries of conflict, Chile’s Indigenous Mapuches fear a far-right political chapter

The Mapuches have endured centuries of battle

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2025

‘They violated our rights’: Chile’s draft constitution fails women, say activists

Last year, a liberal constitution to replace the Pinochet-era one was rejected. Now a referendum will be held on a new draft that curbs abortion rights and enshrines Catholic morality. Here, five women reflect on 2019’s protests and the struggle for equality

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2023

Extradition of singer’s alleged killer raises hopes of justice for Pinochet era

Pedro Barrientos touched down in Santiago on Friday to face trial for murder of folk singer Víctor Jara in 1973

The Guardian - US · Dec 3, 2023

Joan Jara, British dancer and Victor Jara’s widow, dies aged 96

The human rights activist died two weeks before her husband’s killer is due for extradition from US to Chile

The Guardian - US · Nov 13, 2023

‘We followed him everywhere’: Chilean exiles 25 years on from Pinochet’s UK arrest

Members of the London Picket recall hounding the dictator after his pivotal London arrest in 1998

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023

‘It became an obsession’: the long search for the remains of Pinochet’s victims

As Chile marks 50 years since the coup, women who have scoured the desert for remains of their husbands fear the brutality of the death squads will be forgotten

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2023

Chile will search for 1,000+ victims of forced disappearance by Pinochet dictatorship

It is the first time the Chilean government will lead the search for victims, something which victims' relatives and advocates have long carried out themselves and have sought help from the army.

WEKU · Aug 31, 2023

How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile

Stafford Beer pioneered ‘cybernetic management principles’ but Pinochet’s coup saw technology turned to nefarious ends

The Guardian - US · Jul 22, 2023