SANTIAGO, Chile – A scientific autopsy has confirmed that Chilean President Salvador Allende committed suicide during the 1973 coup that toppled his socialist government, court officials announced on ...

Was former Chilean President Salvador Allende assassinated in the military coup that overthrew his socialist government, or did he kill himself in the final moments while his presidential palace was ...

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 ...

Renowned author Isabel Allendetalked candidly about grief and love at a conversation hosted by UC Berkeley’s Arts Research ...

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, ...

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 ...

People attend an event to pay homage to former Chilean President Salvador Allende and to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the military coup against Allende, near La Moneda Palace in Santiago, ...

Addressing the UN General Assembly, Chilean President Salvador Allende accuses US corporations of seeking to foment Chilean civil war and instituting a worldwide boycott of his country’s exports.

For the last decade, I have been haunted by voices from the other side of death. The dead were then silent for years, which left me unprepared when Salvador Allende came to me offering advice for ...