60 Minutos

60 Minutos (English: 60 Minutes) was a Chilean TV newscast which aired on TVN during the military government of Augusto Pinochet between 1975 and 1988.^[1]

The program was conceived as an attempt to "reunify the Chilean people"; however, the opposition dictatorship criticised it for the lack of independence. For that reason, viewers mainly opted to watch Canal 13's newscast Teletrece instead, as the content was perceived more open and independent than 60 Minutos's. At times bias reached substantial levels: a 1984 piece discussed "socialist" governments such as those of France and Spain under François Mitterrand and Felipe González in a negative light, focusing on their failure to tackle the industrial crisis of those nations at the time. The newscast aired pieces negative about Sweden and Prime Minister Olof Palme because Sweden was home to the largest group of Anti-Pinochet exiles, and Olof Palme was strongly critical of the military dictatorship. Also, the world map used in the introduction of the newscast did not include Australia and Cuba because the bad relationship between both countries and the Pinochet dictatorship.

The program's most memorable broadcast was the live interview with Augusto Pinochet, immediately after his assassination attempt on 7 September 1986.

Anchors

• Julio López Blanco
• Pepe Abad
• Raúl Matas
• Bernardo de la Maza
• Raquel Argandoña
• Eduardo Cruz-Johnson
• Paulina Nin de Cardona
• Margot Kahl
• Juan Guillermo Vivado
• Benjamín Palacios

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