Who Killed Victor Jara?
With and autopsy report of 44 bullet wounds in body, it was apparently group effort that took down the poet and folksinger in the bloodbath that accompanied Pinochet's rise to power. Recent court testimony is getting closer at the truth of exactly who did what, and names explicitly the captains, commanders, agents and conscripts involved and overseen by Nelson Edgardo Haase Mazzei, pictured above among friends enjoying the archetypal pastime of the scot-free.
You can find the names of everyone involved, and a description of how Victor Jara was killed, on Tomas Dinges' blog.
Dinges' post is a fine English-language summary of the investigative piece by Jacmel Cuevas of investigative site CIPER Chile detailing the testimonies about those who killed Victor Jara.
Thanks for pointing this out go to Marc Cooper who remembers Victor Jara as a remarkable Chilean folksinger of the pre-Pinochet years.
posted by Chileno @ 1:46 PM
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Soy brasileno y estudio el espanol y no explican estes termos....
Cual es lo significado de la expresion "pos polla",
Por exemplo:
“....wenas pos polla...”
“ ....gracias a ti pos polla...gracias por todo.... “
Muchas Gracias
Valdemar Horta
may justice be served!
thanks for sharing about it
Victor Jara´s memory is going to remain as a strong memory from those who lived in Chile at that period, Pinochet is gone, but the harm he did is still present in the minds of many people
Hey ¨Chileno¨...
I take it that you are no longer in Santiago ... where my wife and I are on a 3 week visit. Amazing changes, even in just the last three yrs (since we had ´cafe con leche´ together).
Interesting times, post-election, with Pinera-posturing -- we´ll see !
Tom R.
Actually the good and the not so good remain as a legacy of the Pinochet years. For one, Chile did not become a Cuba, as it was tending to. Although in recent years Chile has drifted to more socialist ways, and wasteful and incompetent government spending, Chileans by and large are better off for not having continued down the Marxist road and the Cuban model (opiniones de uno que vino a Chile en 1978 y se quedó)
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