In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and dirt streets in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert, there is barely any movement. It’s midday and the sun beats down from a cloudless sky.

The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are racing to protect already scarce water supplies and their way of life.

The town of Chuquicamata had to be abandoned in 2004: as the mine grew, ... Some made their fortunes in the 70s, thanks to close ties with General Pinochet’s regime.

It is 50 years since General Pinochet seized power in Chile, ushering in more than 16 years of military dictatorship. The Week takes a look at the events of the coup and Pinochet's long-lasting ...

Sept. 11, 2023, marks 50 years since Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet rose to power in a U.S.-backed coup and ushered in 17 years of brutal military rule. The coup ended a century and a half of ...

Allende’s peaceful road to socialism through the Popular Unity government included the nationalization of Chuquicamata (the world’s biggest copper mine), agrarian reform, returning land to the ...

Pinochet presided until 1990 over a period of economic prosperity, but also great cruelty. More than 3,200 people were killed or "disappeared" -- abducted and presumed killed -- by his security ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism. But as Chile marks ...

As Chile prepares to mark 50 years since the Sept. 11, 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet, Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín is back in Venice – following “Spencer” in 2021 – with scathing satire ...

Chuquicamata, the world’s largest open-pit copper mine, ... I’d driven past a memorial to 26 people murdered in 1973 by General Augusto Pinochet’s killing squad known as the Caravan of ...

This painting has its own story of survival during Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, when those who opposed the regime were openly persecuted. To prevent the work from ... On the left is Chuquicamata, ...

JACOBINS AND JACKBOOTS Chilean Army Gen. Augusto Pinochet (left) and then Chilean President Salvador Allende before the coup that began Pinochet's 17-year-long dictatorship. COMMENTARY The vote to ...