Instigated by multiple governments in South America, Operation Condor resulted in hundreds, potentially thousands, of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings.
Front-runner: Republican Party candidate, José Antonio Kast.
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To quell weeks of protest over extreme inequality, Chile’s president has agreed to rewrite the country’s constitution, passed in 1980 under the deadly military regime of Augusto Pinochet.
The Army has promised a bloodless rebellion against President Robert Mugabe, but there’s good reason to doubt their claims.
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Some observers think Mugabe’s overthrow by the Army might be a good thing for Zimbabwe. An Argentinean expert on Latin America’s bloody military dictatorships disagrees.
Around 100 coffee shops known as café con piernas – coffee with legs – operate within a five-kilometre radius of the Santiago CBD.
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Coffee and sex are both highly marketable commodities. But who would have thought that the capital of one of Latin America’s most socially conservative countries would combine them in its cafes?
Ricardo Lagos bids adieu after withdrawing from the presidential race on April 10 2017.
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