Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is bloodthirsty and corrupt. Bernard-Henri Lévy asks why left-wing leaders in the West refuse to speak out against him

Transitional justice aims to address large-scale past human rights abuses though judicial and non-judicial measures.

EMMA WATSON has admitted she felt daunted by the extreme subject matter in her new film, political thriller Colonia Dignidad, but she couldn’t say no to such a strong female role.

A blast has ripped through a fast food restaurant next to a busy subway station in Chile’s capital.

Prisoners held by the regime of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet were played a “torture soundtrack” of songs by Julio Iglesias and George Harrison, according to a study.

Judges in Chile have made an unprecedented apology for their role under the rule of General Augusto Pinochet.

Maya Fernandez Allende, granddaughter of Chile’s late Marxist president Salvador Allende, lost her first major political race after a recount, the electoral committee said.

Ecuador is entitled to grant asylum to Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hired Spanish jurist Baltasar Garzon as a legal adviser as he seeks political asylum in Ecuador, the country’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino said.

Spain’s Supreme Court yesterday quashed a bribe-taking case against rights judge Baltasar Garzon, who has already been barred from the judiciary for 11 years.

Spain’s Supreme Court convicted judge Baltasar Garzon in an illegal wiretapping case, crushing the career of a man who won world renown for pursuing human rights abuses.

The Spanish judge known for investigating crimes against humanity took the stand in his own trial, rejecting charges that he had overstepped his jurisdiction by probing right-wing atrocities linked to the Spanish civil war.

A SPANISH judge who became an international human rights hero by indicting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet yesterday denied any wrongdoing as he went on trial over his handling of a domestic corruption probe.

RECENTLY, VE Barrett (Letters, August 24) suggested a Margaret Thatcher would be good for Ireland.

CHILE yesterday exhumed the remains of former president Salvador Allende, in the hope of finally determining whether he committed suicide or was assassinated during a 1973 coup.

Osama bin Laden’s “demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace with human dignity,” President Obama stressed on Sunday night.

THOUSANDS of babies disappeared over a 40-year period in Spain, stolen from their mothers and handed over for adoption by the state and the Catholic Church.

The Roman Catholic Church has angered rights activists and some conservatives by petitioning Chile's government for prisoner pardons that would include people responsible for crimes against humanity.

THE crusading Spanish judge who brought charges against Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden was suspended yesterday, a possible end to his career.

The crusading Spanish judge who brought charges against Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden was suspended today, a possible end to his career.

A former Nazi soldier who founded a secretive, commune-like colony of German immigrants died in a Chilean prison where he was serving time for child molestation and human rights abuses dating to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

SPAIN’S most prominent judge, already charged with abuse of power in a potentially career-ending indictment, denied any wrongdoing as he testified yesterday as a suspect in a separate bribery investigation that has compounded his woes.

THE Spanish judge who became an international hero by going after Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden was indicted yesterday for daring to investigate what is arguably Spain’s own biggest unresolved case — atrocities committed during and after its Civil War.

AN AFTERSHOCK measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale and four other tremors rocked disaster-hit Chile yesterday, triggering a tsunami alert just minutes before billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president.

THOUSANDS more troops were deployed across quake-hit Chile yesterday as residents took up arms to stop a wave of mass looting in the nation’s second city, slapped with an 18-hour curfew.

Billionaire Sebastian Pinera won Chile's presidential vote in the country's first democratic election of a right-wing ruler in 52 years.

CHILE’S presidential election could come down to a nerve-racking vote-by-vote count after a late surge by former President Eduardo Frei made his race against billionaire Sebastian Pinera too close to predict.

A Spanish court will consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer said.

A Spanish judge opened a criminal investigation into the country’s civil war atrocities today, the first official inquiry into one of the darkest chapters of its history.

Senator Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, was taken by ambulance to a hospital near his Massachusetts vacation home after complaining of feeling ill but returned home a few hours later.

Maybe it’s just because, in some irrational way, the Holocaust just feels worse than the Cultural Revolution or Stalin’s purges.

A Spanish judge started proceedings against 40 members of the Rwandan military today on charges of terrorism and genocide.

Prosecutors in the Madeleine McCann case want to examine her mother’s private diary for clues, sources close to the investigation said today.

Portuguese police expect to hand-deliver the results of their investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance to prosecutors today.

THE legal firm called on to provide assistance to the parents of missing Madeleine McCann in the UK is accustomed to high profile cases.

SUCH was the delight of the US administration on hearing that Saddam had been hanged that one could almost visualise these wonderful upholders of democracy and freedom dancing in a big circle around the White House and singing ‘Ding Dong the Witch is Dead’.

In a posthumous letter to Chileans made public today, General Augusto Pinochet wished he had not needed to stage the bloody 1973 coup in which he took power, describing his destiny as one of banishment and unimagined loneliness.

The soldier grandson of General Augusto Pinochet has been thrown out of the Chilean army after causing an uproar with a funeral speech denouncing judges who had tried the late dictator.

Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet will be cremated, according to his son Marco Antonio, to avoid desecration of his grave by “people who always hated him".

The former Chilean dictator remained stubbornly opposed to any efforts to bring him to trial, writes Chris Moncrieff.

FORMER British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was last night said to be “greatly saddened” by the death of General Augusto Pinochet, the one-time ruthless right-wing dictator of Chile.

General Augusto Pinochet, the fierce anti-communist dictator who ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973 to 1990, died this evening from heart complications, the Santiago Military hospital reported. He was 91.

A military hospital in Chile has said former dictator Augusto Pinochet has died.

Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has continued to recover quickly from a weekend heart attack, but will remain at the Santiago Military Hospital for at least another week, doctors said today.