# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-jara
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:44:43.562Z

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name: "Víctor Jara"
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description: "A folksinger whose songs about love and justice made him a target: tortured and executed days after Pinochet's 1973 coup, his death turned him into an enduring symbol of resistance to military dictatorship."
tagline: "Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist (1932-1973)"
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deathDate: "1973-09-16"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Víctor Jara taught, directed theater, and wrote poetry before becoming central to the Nueva canción chilena movement — new Chilean folk sounds that rose during Salvador Allende's presidency. He served as a cultural ambassador through the late 1960s into 1973, an open admirer of Che Guevara and the Allende government. The Chilean military arrested him shortly after the 11 September 1973 coup. He was tortured during interrogations, shot dead, and his body dumped in a Santiago shantytown street. In 2016 a Florida jury found former army officer Pedro Barrientos liable; in 2018 eight retired officers were sentenced to fifteen years. Barrientos, stripped of U.S. citizenship, was deported to Chile in December 2023 and taken into custody.