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 ...

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 ...

Chile’s new right-wing government says it is halting plans to turn a settlement founded by a German cult leader and sex ...

SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Sunday proposed special pensions and other reparations for more than 28,000 Chileans who were tortured by government agents during the country's ...

Adriana Rivas has been a fugitive in Australia since fleeing Chile while on bail 20 years ago. A federal court hearing will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pamela Constable notes in her July 17 Outlook article "Torture's Echoes" that Chile was, before the military coup, "an unusually law-abiding and democratic country." But Ms. Constable should move the ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean court on Tuesday increased the prison sentence for six former soldiers convicted in one of the most notorious killings by the former military dictatorship — the ...

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 ...

VILLA BAVIERA (Reuters) -Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet’s military regime as the government ...

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 ...