Southern Cone

Chile: outrage explodes on the ‘other 9-11’

Santiago exploded into a night of street fighting that left one officer of the Carabineros dead after a court ruled that President Salvador Allende committed suicide during the 1973 coup.

Southern Cone

Chile: students occupy schools to demand reform

Students occupied public high schools in Santiago in the latest protest against the privatization of Chile’s educational system that started under the Pinochet dictatorship.