Augusto Pinochet
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Under General Pinochet’s rule of terror in Chile, one man saved thousands of people from the dictator’s brutal secret police. How did Roberto Kozak do it – and escape death?
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Four-masted tall ship the Esmeralda is a national symbol of Chile but some say the navy should retire it from service
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‘He carried himself like a world leader – but I was distinctly aware that I was in the presence of a terrible, terrible man’
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Protest groups say the current privatised system does not ensure dignified old age and want better retirement benefits
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Prosecutors accuse Lucia Hiriart of siphoning funds from sales of government properties through the NGO she ran to pay off Pinochet’s living expenses
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Sebastian de-Ramon performs at a presidential rally in the Chilean capital days before Patricio Aylwin was elected
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Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl make a swashbuckling escape from a dark corner of Chilean history in this ill-judged romantic thrilller
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US has not acted on Chile’s extradition request but human rights group has brought a civil suit against Pedro Pablo Barrientos Núñez, who lives in Florida
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Politician who became president of Chile after the shock defeat of Pinochet
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It was dangerous for anyone to capture life in Chile under Pinochet – let alone a woman determined to show society’s underbelly. Errázuriz’s photographs of outcasts, fighters and circus performers are both haunting and fascinating
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The Obama administration has declassified document showing that the Chilean dictator personally ordered the assassination of Orlando Letelier in 1976
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As the 400ft, four-masted La Esmeralda moors at Greenwich for a Tall Ships festival, its blood-stained past proves impossible to leave behind
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Declassified US documents indicate Pinochet suppressed police report that fingered military officers in burning alive of Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Quintana
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Claims have persisted that the communist poet was murdered in 1973 by agents of Chilean dictator Pinochet. Now a Spanish team examining exhumed bones has found troubling results
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Manuel Contreras, who ran torture centres in which hundreds were killed, and who was already serving 490-year sentence, given additional 15 years’ jail
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Political heirs of dictator Augusto Pinochet accused of running ‘a machine to defraud the state’ using more than 1,000 fake documents
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Other lives: Teacher, scientist and active communist who fled Chile for asylum in Britain
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Nobel-winning poet’s body to be retested for evidence that might support claims his death in 1973 was a Pinochet-ordered murder
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Human rights groups say actions on foreign soil could fall under legal jurisdictions of those countries or the ICC in The Hague
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Letters: We live in times which require a fearless stand for human rights law and due process – in our own country and everywhere else
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Political ambitions of Pinochet Molina clear as he presses allies to form a new movement, Republican Order My Country
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Cristián Labbé, outspoken defender of Chilean dictator, charged with conspiracy in kidnapping and homicide of 13 prisoners
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Documents detail high-level Ronald Reagan administration debates on policy options to ease Pinochet out of power
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Antonio Castillo: Adriana Rivas, a woman close to the top in the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, is working as a cleaner in Sydney. Chile’s exiles demand she be brought to justice
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Originally published in the Guardian on 23 July 1980: Conservatives reverse previous government's decision to ban sale of weapons to General Pinochet's military regime
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