This video from Chile says about itself:
Victor Jara – Chile Stadium (his last song) English translation
Translated by Joan Jara. Read by Adrian Mitchell. From the album Manifiesto [Canciones Póstumas].
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Three more to be charged for Victor Jara’s murder
Friday 5th September 2014
Victor Jara’s widow welcomes announcement of three more murder charges
MARTYRED Chilean communist folk singer Victor Jara’s widow Joan Jara welcomed the announcement yesterday that three more people have been charged over his murder during the country’s 1973 CIA-backed military coup.
“This decision has to be celebrated and we hope this investigation can continue. We know this marks a milestone,” said Ms Jara.
A judge in Santiago charged former military officers Hernan Chancon Soto and Patricio Vasquez Donoso with taking part in the September 16 1973 killing.
He also charged ex-army prosecutor Ramon Melo Silva as an accomplice.
They join eight former army officers charged in late 2012 and early 2013 with killing the theatre director and singer-songwriter.
A prominent member of the Nueva Cancion Chilena (New Chilean Song) movement, Victor Jara wrote and performed works that tackled social and political issues and provided a musical backdrop to the electoral success of the Popular Unity alliance headed by Salvador Allende.
He and thousands of other Allende supporters were seized during General Augusto Pinochet’s military coup and held in a football stadium.
He was tortured, killed and his body dumped in the street.
His family filed a civil lawsuit in the US last year accusing former army lieutenant Pedro Barrientos Nunez of ordering soldiers to torture the singer.
Lt Barrientos was also said to have personally fired the fatal shot while playing a game of Russian roulette inside the Estadio Chile, where 5,000 Allende supporters were detained.
He left Chile in 1989 and lives in the US. He denies all involvement.
Pingback: Art and dissent, London exhibitions | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Mercedes Sosa, film about her music and life | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Chilean artists on the torturing Pinochet dictatorship | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Music and poetry at the theatre | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Chilean dictator Pinochet’s torture victims remembered | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Charlie Hebdo massacre and governmental violence | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Pinochet dictatorship in Chile and the USA | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Chilean Pinochet officers charged with murdering singer Victor Jara | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Chilean Pinochet dictatorship soldier confesses massacre | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: US Pinochet ally prosecuted for murder, 2011 | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Chilean singer Victor Jara murdered, murderers sentenced at last | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Chilean musical protest against governmental bloodshed, austerity | Dear Kitty. Some blog