Víctor Jara: Eternal Voice of the Great Homeland! (+Murder)

On September 16, 1973, the political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCH), Víctor Jara, died. Communist militant who defended Popular Unity with his guitar and with his songs. He expressed his social vision, but his greatest works, those that are the simplest and most imperishable, are those that spring from the earth and from the poverty of the peripheral neighborhoods of Santiago de Chile.

The murder of Víctor Jara was monstrous, considered to be one of the most inhumane of those committed by the Pinochet dictatorship. On the morning of September 11, 1973, Jara Martínez planned to sing at an event by Salvador Allende on the campus of the State Technical University (UTE), where the President planned to call for a plebiscite so that the people could decide whether or not they were still in power.

On September 11 of that same year, Augusto Pinochet's coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende surprised Víctor Jara at the UTE, where he was arrested along with teachers and students. Jara was detained for several days at the Estadio de Chile, where the repressors of the dictatorship brutally tortured him for hours, where they ended up shooting him down and causing his death on September 16.

His body was found on the 19th of the same month, after being identified by his wife, the English choreographer Joan Turner, and his remains rest in the General Cemetery of Santiago de Chile.

The Chilean people and the world have paid tribute to him through his songs, poems and writings, but above all through his memory because those who shot him to take his life could never erase him from the hearts and minds of his people, fighters and lovers of peace.

Mazo News Team