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.

Venezuela's vice president said tonight that General Augusto Pinochet's death means the former Chilean dictator has managed to escape justice for crimes committed during his rule.

General Augusto Pinochet suffered an acute, life-threatening heart attack today and doctors performed an emergency procedure that “virtually rescued him from death,” the former dictator’s son said.

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An appeals court today turned down a request by lawyers for General Augusto Pinochet to release the former dictator from house arrest or drop human rights charges against him.

On the eve of his 90th birthday, a Chilean court today granted General Augusto Pinochet freedom on bail from the house arrest ordered yesterday by a judge who indicted the former dictator on tax evasion and corruption charges.

General Augusto Pinochet was admitted to hospital for the second time in two weeks today, undergoing what the ex-Chilean dictator’s spokesman said was “apparently just a series of routine medical tests”.

A Chilean appeals court stripped General Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution today in a tax evasion case stemming from multimillion-dollar bank accounts the former Chilean leader held in the United States.

CHILE'S Supreme Court ruled yesterday that murder and kidnapping charges against General Augusto Pinochet can move forward, a decision that brings the former dictator one step closer to trial in a major human rights case.

Chile’s Supreme Court upheld the indictment and house arrest of General Augusto Pinochet for nine kidnappings and one murder during his dictatorship.

A conversation between former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Argentina’s foreign minister gave the military junta the impression it had American backing for its notorious “dirty war”, it has been claimed.

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One person died, several were injured and more than 200 were detained yesterday when the 28th anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s military coup sparked unrest and some looting in Santiago’s poorer suburbs.

The trial of General Augusto Pinochet for alleged human rights violations has been suspended as the former Chilean dictator is too ill.

General Augusto Pinochet has suffered a mild stroke and has stayed at a hospital for an hour for treatment.

A Chilean federal judge has reinstated murder and kidnapping charges against General Augusto Pinochet.

General Augusto Pinochet is in intensive care in a Santiago hospital after suffering a temporary interruption of blood to his brain.

General Augusto Pinochet has been taken to a military hospital suffering from strong and persistent headaches.

Chile's President says a number of political dissidents who disappeared in the early months of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship were killed and thrown into the sea.