SANTIAGO, Chile: A Chilean court on Monday (Aug 28) confirmed jail terms for seven elderly ex-soldiers for the 1973 murder of beloved folk singer Victor Jara in the aftermath of the coup d'etat that installed dictator Augusto Pinochet. The soldiers, aged between 73 and 85 and free men until the ruling, wil
SANTIAGO, Chile: A Chilean court on Monday confirmed jail terms for seven elderly ex-soldiers for the 1973 murder of beloved folk singer Victor Jara in the aftermath of the coup d'etat that installed dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Jara, then 40, was arrested the day after the Sep 11, 1973 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Salvador Allende. The body of a fellow detainee, Littre Quiroga, 33 - national prisons director and a Communist Party member - was found with signs of torture near that of Jara and three other political prisoners.
Jara, a pacifist singer whose lyrics spoke of love and social protest, became an icon of Latin American popular music with songs like The Right to Live in Peace.
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