In Chile, the Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution to remove the title "President" from the late Augusto Pinochet in the Library of Congress.

This comes as Chile marks the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup d'état, in which Pinochet overthrew the then-president Salvador Allende.

On 11 September of that year, a dictatorship began that would last until 1990.

During this week's parliamentary session, communist MP Lorena Pizarro welcomed the bill's approval.

"I want to salute the vote, because 67 deputies were up to the task of a country that wants to call itself democratic," she said.

She continued: "Augusto Pinochet, the murderer, the thief, was never president.

Meanwhile, Johannes Kaiser, one of the deputies who voted against the initiative, defended the dictator who died in 2006.

Criticising the lawmakers who supported the motion, he said: "You may not like the fact that you were prevented from establishing your Cuban regime in Chile in 1973”.

He added: "Pinochet was still president of Chile, whether you like it or not”.