Chile

Chile’s right-wing president on the ropes

July 20, 2011 By Emile Schepers

Right-wing President Sebastian Piñera's popularity rate is at 31 percent, down from 63 percent approval months earlier.

Chilean Communist freed as Colombia drops charges

June 27, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Accused of rounding up money for the FARC, Manuel Olate was detained for three months as a first step to extradition.

Chile seeks truth about deaths of Allende and Neruda

June 14, 2011 By Brian McAfee

The body of former Chilean President Salvador Allende was exhumed in May in an attempt to determine whether the democratically elected socialist president was murdered.

Protests assail rigged trial of Chile indigenous leaders

March 28, 2011 By Emile Schepers

The conviction of four leaders of the Mapuche indigenous group in Chile is drawing international and national condemnation of Chile's right wing government and President Sebastian Piñera.

World Notes: Cuba, Palestine, Ivory Coast – and more

March 23, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

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