SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire Sebastian Pinera was elected Chile's president on Sunday in a political shift to the right after 20 years of leftist rule and will try to build on policies that made the economy Latin America's most stable. Pinera won almost 52 percent of Sunday's run-off vote, the first time the right has wrested power from ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A conservative billionaire has a paper-thin lead heading into Chile's presidential election on Sunday as he bids to end 20 years of center-left rule, but is wrestling with the ghost of former dictator Augusto Pinochet. Airline magnate Sebastian Pinera is seen narrowly beating Eduardo Frei, a former president from the leftist bloc that has governed the world ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile inaugurated a museum on Monday to thousands murdered, "disappeared" and tortured during General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, stirring up bitter memories just days before a presidential vote that is expected to pave the way for a new rightist government. Chile's current center-left government says 3,195 people were killed or "disappeared" during Pinochet's 1973-1990 rule ...