Chileans overwhelmingly elected Jeannette Jara, the country's former labor minister, on Sunday to be the incumbent government's candidate and face off against a field of right-wing contenders in ...

Just over a hundred years after its creation, Chile’s Communist Party may have unexpectedly found one of its best-ever presidential hopefuls.

Jara, who was also a professor at Chile’s State Technical University, remained holed up on campus after the coup, the court said. He was among those arrested by the military after a raid of ...

Chile reburies coup victim and singer Jara Many people sang songs that made Victor Jara a national icon. Thousands of people have attended the funeral of Chilean singer Victor Jara, who has been ...

Written by the legendary Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, the 1971 song, “El Derecho de Vivir en Paz,” or “The Right to Live in Peace,” was originally dedicated to Vietnamese communist ...

Chile’s Gonzalo Jara sparked a red card for Edinson Cavani by poking his finger into the Uruguayan’s bottom during Wednesday’s Copa America quarter-final.

Referee Sandro Ricci shows a second yellow card to Uruguay's Edinson Cavani as Chile's Gonzalo Jara (18) looks on during their quarter-finals Copa America 2015 soccer match at the National Stadium ...

Chile's football team defender Gonzalo Jara (back) provokes Uruguay's Edinson Cavani (front) during their Copa America 2015 quarterfinals football match in Santiago, on June 24, 2015.

Chileans overwhelmingly elected Jeannette Jara, the country's former labor minister, on Sunday to be the incumbent government's candidate and face off against a field of right-wing contenders in ...