SANTIAGO, Chile – As bombs fell and rebelling troops closed in on the national palace, socialist President Salvador Allende avoided surrender by shooting himself with an assault rifle, ending Chile’s ...

OBERLIN, Ohio -- Sept. 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the coup which toppled the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile, leading to a brutal 17-year-long dictatorship whose ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — The mansion was used as a domestic spying center by the feared secret police of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Now it will house works of art and be dedicated to the socialist overthrown by ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A bloody civil war and the tragic death by suicide of an ousted president served as inspiration for Isabel Allende’s new novel, “My Name is Emilia del Valle.” The story centers on ...

Isabel Allende is a liar, and she'll be the first one to say so. In "My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile," she cautions the reader: "Don't believe everything I say: I tend to ...

Isabel Allende has been a literary legend for more than four decades. The novelist made a living with words before she turned her attention to fiction. Allende worked as a journalist in Chile until ...

Principal photography is underway in Chile on Prime Video Original ‘The House of the Spirits,’ an 8-part series based on Chilean author Isabel Allende’s career-launching novel. Allende, Eva Longoria ...

IOWA CITY -- Roberto Ampuero was a 20-year-old member of the Chilean Communist Students Organization when the elected president of his country, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a bloody coup on ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: Zuma Press/EPA/Shutterstock Composite: Mark Kelly Monday marks the 50th anniversary of ...

Isabel Angelica Allende Liona is a Chilean-American writer. Her works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre.

“If there’s a mess, I can’t work,” the best-selling Chilean author said of her neat offices and home, where her most treasured memento is correspondence with her mother. Isabel Allende was worried ...