The composer was assassinated along with former prisons chief Littré Quiroga five days after the September 11, 1973 coup against socialist president Salvador Allende
The Chilean singer-songwriter was arrested on September 12, 1973, one day after Pinochet’s coup d’état. The country’s Supreme Court will begin hearing the case
Santiago, Chile, Mar 16 (Prensa Latina) Chilean justice reportedly sentenced former Army Brigadier General Orlando Carter to ten years behind bars for the assassination of two militants of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) during dictatorship.
By Maxine Lowy Demonstrators fill the streets and a battalion of police runs after them until nabbing several and letting their clubs fall. Within this
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) A Chilean court on Tuesday increased the prison sentence for six former soldiers convicted in one of the most notorious killings by the former military dictatorship the kidnapping, torture and murder of folk singer Víctor Jara as well as that of a government official.