Upon my daily procrastination rituals, I came across this headline on the BBC: Charge over Chile singer's death.
Thirty-six years ago this September 11th, the CIA planned and carried out a coup d'etat in Chile against democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende. The repurcussions of this insidious act, ordered by Richard Nixon, can still be felt today, as what followed the coup was a virtual blood bath of artists, poets and musicians thought to be simpathetic to Allende's Marxist government. Victor Jara was among tens of thousands of Chileans ordered killed by U.S. backed dictator General Augusto Pinochet.
Victor Jara was the founder of Chile's Nuevo Cancion movement. Here is a video of him playing one of his most popular songs "El Cigarrito".
The BBC article reports that Jara's killer, one of Pinochet's henchmen, has been charged with his murder. But the two men that were actually responsible for this horrific bit of American history , U.S. President Richard Nixon and then CIA director Richard Helms, spent the rest of their lives without being brought to justice.
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