Two Chilean military officers have been charged with torturing a former president’s father who died in their custody.

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.

Hortensia Bussi, the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende who helped lead opposition to the military dictatorship that ousted her socialist husband in a bloody 1973 coup, has died at 94.

BACK in the first week in January four prominent American political figures raised the need for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The issue was followed up this week in an article by Mikhail Gorbachev calling for urgent action.

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.

The death of Gen Augusto Pinochet sparked champagne-soaked celebrations, skirmishes with police and displays of lasting devotion as Chileans took an anguished look back at the dictator's 17-year rule.

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 dictator Augusto Pinochet was conscious and talking today, but doctors said his condition is still life-threatening after suffering a heart attack.

Former dictator Augusto Pinochet was today fighting for his life at a Chilean military hospital after suffering a heart attack, but doctors said he was improving after an emergency angioplasty to restore blood flow to his heart.

Doctors tonight ruled out bypass surgery on Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who is fighting for his life at a military hospital after suffering a major heart attack.

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.

Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalised today after suffering a heart attack and is in a serious but stable condition, the Santiago Military Hospital said.

Chile’s former dictator General Augusto Pinochet has been indicted and ordered to remain under house arrest for the killing of two bodyguards of Salvador Allende, the freely-elected Marxist president he toppled in a 1973 coup.

FORMER dictator General Augusto Pinochet was indicted yesterday and ordered to remain under house arrest for the execution of two bodyguards of Salvador Allende, the freely elected Marxist president who was toppled in a 1973 coup.

Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has taken full responsibility for the first time for the actions of his 1973-90 dictatorship, in which thousands were killed.

Chile’s Supreme Court in Santiago has upheld a ruling stripping Gen Augusto Pinochet of his immunity against trial for the killing of two bodyguards of Salvador Allende, the Marxist president he toppled in a 1973 coup.

The elder daughter of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has requested asylum in the US after being taken into custody at Dulles International Airport.

Chile’s former leader Augusto Pinochet was today stripped of his legal immunity against trial for the killing of two bodyguards of Salvador Allende, the Marxist president he toppled in the bloody 1973 coup that installed his long dictatorship.

FOLLOWING the military coup d’etat ousting the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973, some 25,000 were forced to flee the country.

THE question over whether or not the Colombia Three should be extradited continues to exercise minds. It could set a dangerous precedent.

An appeals court today stripped former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution for a 1974 car bombing that killed an exiled general.

CHILE’S Supreme Court has stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution, reviving hopes of those who want him to stand trial for atrocities under his 1973-1990 regime.

Chile’s Supreme Court has stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution, reviving the hopes of his foes who want him to stand trial for atrocities under his 1973-1990 regime.

Venezuela’s vice president has accused the United States of participating in a 2002 coup that briefly toppled President Hugo Chavez.

Chilean judges have postponed a ruling on the fate of General Pinochet because they could not agree on whether he should be spared trial on health grounds.

A lawyer for former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has asked a Santiago court to suspend legal proceedings against him, saying he is too ill to stand trial on human rights charges.

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