Augusto Pinochet integrated the musical genre cueca into his regime. For decades, Chileans associated the national music and dance with a dictatorship known for killing thousands of people. But ...

The folkloric, traditional kind is known as Perico ripiao or merengue típico — it's another dance that is said to have Cuban influence and is believed to have originated in the Cibao region.

Boisterous brass bands led hundreds of religious parishioners parading through the streets of this desert city on Thursday night to celebrate the Virgin Mary and the homecoming of Chile's 33 ...