On the night of September 15, 1973, Victor Jara was picked out of a line of prisoners being led out from the Chile Stadium to the National Stadium, another detention centre, in the days following ...

Victor Jara was murdered 42 years ago, justice now!!! But despite the passage of time and the political changes that Chile has undergone, rumination on his music's significance has not faded. Jara was ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On Sept. 11, 1973, the Chilean president, a socialist named Salvador Allende, was forcibly removed ...

As one of the luminaries behind Chile’s Nueva Canción folk movement, singer-songwriter Víctor Jara was renowed worldwide for his heartrending protest songs promoting social justice, freedom and ...

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 ...

The violent nature of Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara’s death in September 1973 — many call it an assassination — made him a martyr to the cause of social justice. A mythology immediately arose ...

Chilean musician Victor Jara was a man brimming with passion, love and enthusiasm whose powerful songs of protest during the 1960s and 70s touched the hearts of Chileans, igniting hope and a sense ...

In the politically charged 1980 Clash song “Washington Bullets,” Joe Strummer sang, “Please remember Victor Jara, in the Santiago stadium.” Burlington’s John Summa is doing just that, with a ...

Soldiers crushed Victor Jara's fingers to symbolically silence his guitar, and then shot him 44 times in 1973. They did not succeed in muting his music, or his message. By Judy Cantor-Navas Victor ...

A Chilean judge ordered the arrest of eight former military officials for their involvement in the death of legendary folk singer Víctor Jara, who was murdered in 1973 in the Santiago soccer stadium… ...

Written by the legendary Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, the 1971 song, “El Derecho de Vivir en Paz,” or “The Right to Live in Peace,” was originally dedicated to Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi ...

Follow in the footsteps of Pablo Neruda, Victor Jara and Gabriela Mistral to find a closer connection to the country’s present. Walk into La Casa en El Aire, a brightly painted cottage-like ...