Tag: Víctor Jara

• Wednesday, August 30th 2023 - 08:59 UTC

  Chile: One of Víctor Jara's murderers kills himself

  

  Eighty-six-year-old Retired Chilean Army General Hernán Carlos Chacón Soto committed suicide Tuesday moments before he was to be transferred to the Puntateuco jailhouse to begin serving his 25-year sentence for the 1973 abduction and murder of singer-songwriter Victor Jara and Prisons Bureau Director Littré Quiroga, it was reported in Santiago.

• Tuesday, August 29th 2023 - 08:38 UTC

  Chile: Sentences against Víctor Jara's murderers upheld

  

  Chile's Supreme Court Monday sentenced seven retired military officers involved in the Sept. 12, 1973, kidnapping and murder of singer-songwriter Víctor Jara to 25 years in jail, it was reported in Santiago. Those convicted are between 73 and 85 years old and are all at liberty.