Legacies bind Castro, Pinochet in their twilight
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SANTIAGO/HAVANA  - Fighting serious illnesses in their old age, Cold War icons Fidel Castro of Cuba and Augusto Pinochet of Chile are united in stubborn adherence to their opposing and now largely unfashionable ideologies.
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Cubans are increasingly talking in the past tense about Fidel Castro, the man who governed their lives for 47 years.
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SANTIAGO -- Thousands of mourners honored General Augusto Pinochet yesterday, many weeping as they kissed his glass-topped casket in a military ceremony that exposed deep divisions over the legacy of his 17-year dictatorship.
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Chile's democratically elected Marxist president in a bloody coup and ruled this Andean nation for 17 years, died Sunday, dashing hopes of victims of his regime's abuses that he would be brought to justice. He was 91.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chileans are turning more and  more against ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, making courts more  likely to put the ailing retired general on trial for human  rights abuses during his 1973-1990 regime, political scientists  said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- In the long struggle to seek justice for victims of human rights abuses committed during 17 years of military rule in Chile, former dictator Augusto Pinochet has repeatedly escaped efforts to prosecute him and bring him to trial. With Pinochet now under house arrest, the country's Supreme Court is said to be ready to announce Monday whether the ailing ex-general will finally be brought to court.
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The former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet yesterday lost what could be the final round in his tortuous struggle to avoid prosecution for human rights abuses.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - When Asiria Astudillo's son was  arrested in 1975 by the military under August Pinochet's  dictatorship, she turned to the church-based Vicariate of  Solidarity, or "Vicaria," for help.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 12 -- Family and friends eulogized Gen. Augusto Pinochet on Tuesday as a hero of the Cold War who has been mislabeled as a murderous despot, and they appealed to history to judge kindly the man whose 17-year rule left behind a long trail of murder and abuse.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte became a symbol of human rights abuse and corruption.
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Bitter divisions over the memory of Gen. Augusto Pinochet surfaced at his military funeral Tuesday, as mourners booed the defense minister who denied the dictator a state funeral and cheered Pinochet's grandson for justifying the bloody coup that ousted an elected president more than 30 years ago.
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A ceremony to honour those who died in Chile's 1973 military coup ends in violent  clashes.
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From his sickbed, Fidel Castro has set the stage for a more collective style of governance in a country long used to a single strongman, selecting six trusted comrades to run key projects while his brother acts as president and head of the Communist Party.
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By Ignacio Badal SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chileans are turning more andmore against ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, making courts morelikely to put the ailing retired general on trial for humanrights abuses during his 1973-1990 regime, political scientistssaid.
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Communist leaders called Tuesday for the revolutionary ideals of ailing leader Fidel Castro to live on as they marked the 50th anniversary of a failed attempt to assassinate dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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As Latin American military autocrats go, Augusto Pinochetâs legacy will be more mixed than most.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday 49 years after taking power in an armed revolution, closing the book on a Cold War career that made him an icon to leftists and a tyrant to his foes.