fragments of an attempted writing.



According to Wiki:

Shortly after the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, he [Jara] was arrested, tortured and ultimately shot to death by machine gun fire. His body was later thrown out into the street of a shanty town in Santiago.

As to the U.S. involvement in that coup and what led up to it, well...

2 comments:

  1. Didn't Arlo Guthrie write a song about this guy? I seem to recall my kids telling me about it.

    diane

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  2. Well... since you brought up the subject...

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