This past Sept. 18, my mother and I sat down to eat empanadas we picked up from a local Chilean eatery in honor of Chile's Independence Day, Dieciocho. My mother played her favorite musician, Chilean ...

Former Chilean Army officer Pedro Paulo Barrientos Nunez is in ICE custody following his arrest in Florida for the 1973 killing of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara in the aftermath of a bloody military ...

For this year’s Icons & Influences issue, we asked 10 artists to pay tribute to the women who have shaped their sound, provided an example, and inspired them to break down barriers. Chan Marshall, a.k ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Violeta Parra was born in 1917, in the region of Chillán, in the South of Chile, ...

ORLANDO (CN) — A Florida jury on Monday found Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nuñez, a former officer in the army of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, responsible for the torture and killing of iconic folk ...

Every weekday through Hispanic Heritage Month, World Cafe dives into the music of a different country in Latin America. Editor's Note: To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month this year, World Cafe is ...

There will be an opening celebration for the new "Gateway to Chile" display garden from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 17. The free celebration is open to the public and will include tours of the new garden by ...

It’s been nearly five months since a wave of austerity measures, proposed by Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, sent Chile spiraling into civil unrest. Outside the grounds of the 60th annual Viña del ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – The widow of folk singer Victor Jara called on the U.S. government Wednesday to extradite a retired Chilean military official charged with murdering her husband during Chile’s 1973 ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

Editor's Note: To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month this year, World Cafe is going on a musical tour of Latin America. Every weekday from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we'll spotlight the music of a ...