When Chile’s German-themed settlement Villa Baviera was known as Colonia Dignidad, it was the home of a brutal cult used for torturing and killing dissidents under ...

SANTIAGO, CHILE - Three decades after being imprisoned and tortured during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Mireya Garcia is among 27,000 Chileans who will finally get government ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Viola remembers the terror of being naked in front of her captors, the blows to her body and the pain. Carlos recounts being barely able to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VILLA BAVIERA (Reuters) -Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during ...

The fate of a Bondi nanny fighting extradition over allegations she tortured seven victims while working as an agent for a secret police force in Chile’s Pinochet regime has been decided. Adriana ...

Police in Chile arrested a former army chief Thursday on charges of torturing 24 people in 1973, shortly after the coup that brought dictator Augusto Pinochet to power, officials said. Retired general ...

A member of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s brutal secret police who’s been accused of murder taught for more than a decade at the Pentagon’s premier university, despite repeated ...

TEMUCO, Chile – Pope Francis traveled to the heart of Chile's centuries-old conflict with indigenous peoples on Wednesday, celebrating Mass on contested land that was also used as a detention and ...

Government says land owners will be compensated Plans for memorial at the site Resident says they were unaware of dictatorship's activities VILLA BAVIERA, July 23 (Reuters) - Chile plans to ...