40 Years After Chile Coup, Family of Slain Singer Victor Jara Sues Alleged Killer in U.S. Court 1/2
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- www.democracynow.org - This week marks the 40th anniversary of what's known as the other 9/11: September 11, 1973, when a U.S.-backed military coup ousted Chile's democratically elected president Salvador Allende and ushered in a 17-repressive dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. We're joined by Joan Jara, the widow of Chilean singer Víctor Jara, who has just filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. court against the former military officer who allegedly killed Jara 40 years ago. Jara's accused killer, Pedro Barrientos, has lived in the United States for roughly two decades and is now a U.S. citizen. Jara's family is suing him under federal laws that allow U.S. courts to hear about human rights abuses committed abroad. Last year, Chilean prosecutors charged Barrientos and another officer with Jara's murder, naming six others as accomplices. We also speak with Almudena Bernabeu, an attorney with Center for Justice and Accountability, who helped filed the Jara family's lawsuit last week.
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"I saw literally hundreds of bodies that were piled up in what was actually the parking place of the morgue," Joan Jara says of finding her husband's body 40 years ago. "I recognized him. I saw what had happened to him. I saw the bullet wounds. I saw the state of his body. I consider myself one of the lucky ones in the sense that I had to face in that moment what had happened to Victor. I could [later] give my testimony with all the force of what I felt in that moment -- and not the horror, which is much worse, of never knowing what happened to your loved one. That happened to so many families, so many women who have spent these 40 years looking for their loved ones who were made to disappear."
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Mrs. Jara, as an American, I am so deeply ashamed of what my country's leaders did to Victor and to all the others who died in Chile, killed for committing the crimes of freedom, equality, poetry and dreams. Many of us listen to and sing Victor's songs. May we someday soon make a world where no one else is punished for such "crimes".
Cara Joan .. thank you so much for this interview. It must have been difficult to talk again in English about what happened to Victor. I saw you in a theatre in Hamburg probably 1974 when a work colleague took me along to hear you talk about supporting the Chilean refugees and I still have the LP I bought then and presented it to my son recently telling him the history. In 1980 I visited your country and made a special trip to the stadium just to stand in silence outside.
Your children must be proud of their father, but they must be even prouder of their incredible mother.
The injustice of what the innocent people of Chile went through under Pinochet continues to make my blood boil.
Viva Chile, Viva el Pueblo, Vivan los Trabajadores!
Nixon is dead. But Henry Kissinger is still living and active. Shouldn't he be held accountable? Why is this guy untouchable?
I'm Ukrainian, I can ask the same about Soros. And Biden, and Obama, and Nuland.
@@tatianalyulkin410 And you are absolutely correct for asking that question! I applaud you!!!
I asked myself the same question Kissinger committed so many war crimes in many countries one of them Vietnam, where is justice?
Joan Jara passed away this past Sunday, an amazing woman, thank you Joan, you are finally with your beloved Victor ❤️🥲
Your children must be so proud of their father but even more so of their incredible mother.
We will Never Forget.
-Latin America
In 2010 I was taking a Spanish class at City College ( SF ). I was kind of leafing through the textbook and in one of the last chapters the author of that textbook was talking about Violetta Parra and the new music that she and Uncle Victor had created. And, of course, not a word about Uncle Victor himself. The very next day I dropped the class.
Very touching.
The torture that was applied to so many people was horrible, victims of Pinochet’s dictatorship still looking for remains of their love ones, unacceptable!
Venceremos. Al fascismo sabremos vencer
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