Víctor Jara
Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist (1932-1973) · Chile · Directors · Died at 40
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Something wrong?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.
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Víctor Jara in Live in LimaFilm, 19731969“The cultural invasion is like a leafy tree which prevents us from seeing our own sun, sky and stars.”In their wordsIn 1969 Jara commented about the distinction between the commercialised ‘protest song phenomenon’ imported into Chile and the nature of the1960
Un viaje a SantiagoFilm1932Born28 September 1932Also in Deutsch
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, The cultural invasion is like a leafy tree which prevents us from seeing our own sun, sky and stars.
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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.
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