Thursday, May 28, 2009

¡justicia para victor jara!

from today's guardian:

It was the atrocity which symbolised Chile's descent into dictatorship: soldiers used rifle butts to smash the hands of Victor Jara, a political activist and folk singer, so he could not play guitar. Then they shot him 44 times.

Yesterday, almost 36 years later, justice caught up with one of killers. José Adolfo Paredes Márquez, a former conscript in Augusto Pinochet's army, was charged with murder.

The burly 54-year-old was tracked down in San Sebastian, a spa town outside the capital Santiago, where he was working as a waiter and gardener.

Activists who have campaigned for the case to be reopened welcomed the announcement but urged authorities to focus on arresting commanding officers. "There are other people responsible – those who ordered the torture and the execution," said Joan Turner Jara, the singer's English-born widow.


¡¡no a la complicidad!! ¡¡¡justicia para el pueblo chileno!!!


¡¡¡que viva victor jara!!!

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ni chicha ni limoná
: victor jara


1 comment:

♫ En El Palacio De La Risa Y El Dolor ♪ ☆ said...

me encanta este tema! se las canta como es! grande Víctor Jara!!!