The last days of Victor Jara: Chile's political poet killed by the Pinochet dictatorship
Briefly

In August, 1973 a month before he was tortured and assassinated by Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship the Chilean singer-songwriter and theater director Victor Jara experienced moments of heartbreak.His story exemplified the convulsive period in the lead-up to the coup on September 11.Perhaps knowing what was coming, he wrote some verses that, today, seem oddly prophetic.
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