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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
News / History Think Musicians Today Have Got It Bad?
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:05 PM
At least you're not Victor Jara, the Chilean folk singer who started the New Song movement to support President Allende. A judge has finally charged someone—a former army conscript—for the singer's murder.
Victor Jara and thousands of other people were arrested and taken to the main football stadium in Santiago soon after Gen Pinochet seized power, following the military coup which ousted the elected leftist president Salvador Allende in September, 1973.Once there, soldiers broke and burned Victor Jara's hands so that he was unable to play his guitar, witnesses say. He was then shot and killed.
Here's the man, getting all sincere about tobacco:
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