Chile News News Chile » History: Chile History Explained, From Origins to 2026
Chile history begins with indigenous peoples, above all the Mapuche, who resisted Spanish conquest for more than three centuries. Spain founded Santiago in 1541, and Chile proclaimed its independence ...
News Chile » History: Patricio Guzmán: fierce filmmaker who chronicled 50 years of Chile’s history after Pinochet coup
This week marks half a century since the beginning of Augusto Pinochet’s brutal 17-year dictatorship – a dark and devastating period of Chile’s history that continues to leave scars on the South ...
News Chile » History: Stumbling on Chilean Stones—and Chilean History
A plaque as part of the Residencias de la Memoria initiative by the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. (By permission of The Museum of Memory and Human Rights) By signing up, you confirm that you are ...
News Chile » History: Reflections On The Illegal And Unconstitutional In Chilean History
Chile’s former President Michelle Bachelet, center, wipes a tear as she stands with her mother Angela Jeria, left, and Margarita Romero, president of the Villa Grimaldi organization, right, all ...
News Chile » History: Chile Under Pinochet: A Film Chronology of Dictatorship and Memory
The Pinochet years keep returning to Chilean cinema because the dictatorship did not stay in the past. It was long and brutal, and its damage outlasted the regime that produced it. The 1973 military ...