UPDATE, Thursday, Sept. 17, 7 a.m.: Officials have reported at least eight deaths attributed to Chile's powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake on Wednesday. More than one million people were…

SANTIAGO, Chile – Fifteen former members of Chile's dictatorship-era secret police must stand trial for the 1976 kidnapping and killing of a Spanish diplomat, the country's Supreme Court…

WASHINGTON — The burning alive of two teenagers by a Chilean military patrol in 1986 was directly reported to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, but he refused to accept…

Update, Monday, 9:30 a.m.: From AFP: A Chilean judge on Monday ordered the arrest of five more former soldiers for allegedly burning alive a teenage photographer seized at…

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Seven ex-military men were indicted Friday in Chile over the 1986 killing of a photographer reportedly doused with gasoline and set ablaze by soldiers during…

VALPARAÍSO, Chile — Thousands of residents began returning to their Valparaíso homes Saturday, hours after fleeing a still-smoldering forest fire that threatened the treasured Chilean seaport city, a…

Also see our special report, "Pinochet's Arrest Remembered," published last October.  Last Wednesday in Santiago, Chile, Judge Jorge Zepeda’s office made public the results of a 14-year legal…

SANTIAGO, Chile – A Chilean man burned alive when a homemade bomb went off in Santiago early Thursday, law enforcement officials said, following the latest in a series…

Nothing like the whiff of cordite to set a society on a forensic soul-searching mission: Two explosions in Chile last week — one near a Santiago metro…

VALPARAÍSO, Chile – More than 8,000 people were evacuated Sunday as an army of firefighters battled a killer blaze that tore through parts of Chile's historic port…