Duck! Fifty years later, Walt Disney and Salvador Allende are still fighting for our souls A century after Disney's founding and 50 years after the Chilean coup, the battle for our shared future ...

Military jets bombed La Moneda presidential palace during the coup on Sept. 11, 1973, in Santiago, Chile. President Salvador Allende killed himself and Gen. Augusto Pinochet began a 17-year ...

Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman revisits the death of Salvador Allende In Dorfman’s new novel, “The Suicide Museum,” the legacy of a slain president is entwined with climate change ...

Salvador Allende in 1970. The death of Mr. Allende, a former Chilean president, is the central mystery of Ariel Dorfman’s new novel, “The Suicide Museum.” Eduardo Di Baia/Associated Press ...

The 80-year-old Chilean-born writer, whose latest novel is "The Wind Knows My Name," talks about her tumultuous family history, and the passion and courage of her stories' female characters.

As national security advisor to President Nixon, Kissinger ferociously opposed Allende and destabilized the Chilean government by every means possible.

U.S. agents have long been accused of complicity in the murder of two Americans in Chile. A two-decade investigation suggests ...

Chile's Salvador Allende died in a United States-backed coup on 11 September 1973 - three years earlier he had become Latin America's first democratically-elected Marxist president. The Chilean poet ...

On September 11, 1973, entrenched in the presidential palace in Santiago and facing Augusto Pinochet's coup, the Chilean president knew his hours were numbered. A new book looks at the story of ...

Addressing the UN General Assembly, Chilean President Salvador Allende accuses US corporations of seeking to foment Chilean civil war and instituting a worldwide boycott of his country’s exports ...

Salvador Allende, the socialist Chilean President who died in a coup fifty years ago, remains a subject of fascination and conjecture; in Dorfman’s new novel, his fate may have significance for ...

Isabel Allende was born in Peru in 1942. She traveled the world as the daughter of a Chilean diplomat. Her father’s first cousin was former Chilean President Salvador Allende.