Chilean singer-songwriter and theater director, born 1932, prominent in the Nueva Canción movement, killed in 1973 during the aftermath of the Chilean coup.

He was a leading figure of the Nueva Canción movement. After the 1973 coup he was detained, tortured (his hands were broken) and shot; many reviews and historical accounts note he sang while detained. His song "Te Recuerdo Amanda" is widely cited; his wife Joan Turner preserved his recordings after the coup.

Victor Jara was a Chilean singer-songwriter and theatre director central to the Nueva Canción movement. Reviews praise his album Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas and songs such as Te Recuerdo Amanda. He was detained, tortured and killed after the 1973 Chilean coup; his recordings were preserved by his wife Joan Turner.

For:Fans of political folk, students of Latin American history, human-rights activists

 

They broke his fingers, one by one. And then his hands

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The songwriter was taken, along with thousands of other people, to the Estadio Nacional de Chile (renamed after him in 2003) where he became a victim of torture and humiliation by the military, who first destroyed his means of communication, his hands, his primary form of expression, and then riddled him with gunshots.

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