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Unhygienic: Air force students in Cuba have shared screenshots of the starch-heavy and unpalatable food they are served and the cockroaches that infest their food and living space

The situation in Cuba: ‘Prisoners in South Africa live in better conditions’

South African student pilots training in Cuba complain of slave-like conditions

Political leadership is in a mess (Photo Archive)

Political leadership is in a mess

Ironically enough, a potent drive for reform of the capitalist system will come from the private sector

Judge orders Chilean president exhumed

A Chilean judge ordered the remains of former president Salvador Allende exhumed for an investigation into whether he was murdered in a 1973 coup.

Dozens killed in Chile prison fire

A fire broke out at a prison in the Chilean capital early on Wednesday, killing 81 inmates and injuring many more.

Massive quake hits Chile, hundreds dead

One of the world’s most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile on Saturday, killing at least 214 people.

Pole dancer perks up Santiago commute

A pole dancer who took her writhing spins where they had never been — on to a pole inside a subway car — perked up the morning commute in Santiago.

Fifty-three trapped after Chile volcano eruption

Chilean military vehicles were en route on Wednesday to rescue 53 people trapped in a wilderness park after one of the country’s largest volcanoes erupted, spewing ash and molten…

Sex worker auctions ’27 hours of love’

A Chilean sex worker has auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country’s largest charity during an annual fund-raising campaign. Maria Carolina became an overnight…

Big earthquake kills two in Chile, hits mining

A powerful earthquake hit mineral-rich northern Chile on Wednesday, killing at least two people, injuring more than 100 and halting output at some of the world’s largest copper…

Chile judge orders arrest of Pinochet family

A Chilean judge on Thursday ordered the arrest of the widow and five children of late dictator Augusto Pinochet as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption,…

Chile’s top court rules to extradite Fujimori

Chile’s Supreme Court said on Friday it had ruled to extradite Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori to face charges of embezzlement and human rights abuses during the 1990s.…

Chile judge rules former Peru president not to be extradited

A Chilean Supreme Court judge has ruled that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru to face human rights and corruption charges, a court…

Death of the ‘spectre of horror’

One of the cruellest enforcers of Chile’s former dictatorship, the self-confessed torturer Osvaldo Romo Mena, died in prison of heart failure at the age of 70, police sources…

From human-fat meatballs to a pink mountain

Last year, Chilean-born artist Marco Evaristti mixed fat removed from his body by liposuction with ground beef to make meatballs, which he fried in olive oil and displayed in a…

Strong quake felt in Santiago

A 5,3-magnitude quake was felt in the Chilean capital, Santiago, on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake followed a strong temblor in the country’s…

Pinochet was symbol of military repression

Augusto Pinochet, who died on December 10 after suffering a heart attack, came to symbolise Latin American military repression and was linked to thousands of cases of torture,…

Augusto Pinochet dead at 91

Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday. He was 91.…

Pinochet fights for life after heart attack

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet fought to survive on Monday after a heart attack put him in a Santiago military hospital, while teary-eyed supporters of all ages held…

Chile’s Pinochet under house arrest again

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest on Monday in connection with the kidnap of two of his political opponents in 1974, a judicial source said.…

Bachelet sworn in as Chile’s first woman leader

Socialist Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as Chile’s first female president on Saturday and appealed for national unity to heal the divisions left by a military dictatorship that…