Tag: Coup

  • Chile’s 50-Year Search: The Disappeared After Coup

    Chile’s 50-Year Search: The Disappeared After Coup

    Finally, After Decades, Missing Chilean’s Remains Returned to Family Thirty-six long years have passed since the mysterious abduction and vanishing of Fernando Ortíz. Just recently, his family received a box containing a handful of bone fragments that belong to him. In 1976, when General Augusto Pinochet held power in Chile, Fernando Ortíz, a 50-year-old professor,…