Whether universal jurisdiction ultimately regresses or becomes a cornerstone of modern international law, the Iron Lady will be remembered as one of its fiercest opponents.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's coalition of four center-left parties, displaced after 20 years in power by the right-wing alliance led by President Sebast...

Like Pinochet, Ben Ali traded civil and human rights for economic development -- and lost.

MADRID — The Spanish judge who became an international hero by going after Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden was indicted Wednesday for having da...

This guest column was written by Miriam Celaya, whose blog, Without Evasion, recently won the prize for Best Journalism Blog in the Virtual Island con...

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- During Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, political prisoners were held in navy ships and stadiums, in office buildings and police st...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Brutal dictator or misunderstood hero? A case study in the banality of evil, or a modest showcase for a complicated man? That's ...