Augusto Pinochet

Chilean lawmakers agreed on Nov. 15 to hold a referendum next April on replacing the country's unpopular Pinochet-era constitution, bowing to demands of protesters who say the country's decades-old social model has created deep inequality.

In his speech on Wednesday to SYRIZA lawmakers, party leader and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras described with clarity the tactics he intends to pursue during this year's pre-election period which we have now essentially entered.

SANTIAGO, Chile - Anger has been stoked in Chile after ten people convicted of grave human rights abuses during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) asked for 'pardon' through an ecumenical act at the prison in which they are being held.

Chile reburied Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda's remains Tuesday after exhuming them to determine whether he was assassinated by late dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime -- a mystery that still lingers.

Chileans took to the streets on Sept.13 to honor the victims of Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 regime and to demand the closure of a special "luxury" prison for ex-dictatorship officials.

By Paschos Mandravelis

The late French poet, journalist and novelist Anatole France had some useful advice: "When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: Take it and copy it."

As Greece heads to snap elections on Sunday, political parties have heavily drawn from the bottomless well of mostly American campaign ads to get their message across.