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 (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 ...

Decree 521 of the Chilean government of June 18, 1974, was a chilling moment in the country’s convulsed history. With the state now in the pathologically disturbed hands of a military dictatorship ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...