An updated biography describes with new documentation the life and political trajectory of the former Chilean president, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death
The verdict in the Víctor Jara case half a century after his murder and the suicide of one of the convicted ex-military officers exposes the cracks in a country where no consensus exists on the condemnation of the September 1973 coup
Hernán Chacón Soto, 86, had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for aggravated homicide and 10 years for aggravated kidnapping for the assassinations of the singer and Littré Quiroga
The composer was assassinated along with former prisons chief Littré Quiroga five days after the September 11, 1973 coup against socialist president Salvador Allende
The Chilean singer-songwriter was arrested on September 12, 1973, one day after Pinochet’s coup d’état. The country’s Supreme Court will begin hearing the case
The Chilean songwriter was politically committed until the end, when he was murdered by the Pinochet dictatorship’s soldiers
A new biography about the singer-songwriter recounts the months and days before he was executed after the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende
