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Víctor Jara: Beyond the Martyr Daniel Party, PUC Chile Chilean singer-songwriter Víctor Jara () is widely known as an international....
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist political activist.
Víctor Jara: The folk singer murdered for his music
A new album documents the life and death of Víctor Jara, a Chilean folk singer who became an international icon of resistance, writes Dorian Lynskey.
Víctor Jara named his last song after the place where he spent his final days: Estadio Chile, an indoor sports complex in Santiago.
He wrote it on 16 September 1973, five days after a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet brought down the socialist government of Chile’s president Salvador Allende. Jara had been arrested the day after the coup and held in the stadium that had become an ad hoc detention centre for around 5,000 supporters of Allende’s Popular Unity alliance.
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There are many conflicting accounts of Jara’s last days but the 2019 Netflix documentary Massacre at the Stadium pieces together