Last fugitive in Víctor Jara murder case arrested 53 years after killing

Víctor Jara, a 40-year-old folk singer and activist, was tortured, had his hands broken, and was shot 44 times during Pinochet's 1973 coup; over 3,000 were killed and tens of thousands tortured during the 17-year dictatorship.

More than fifty years after the coup that silenced him, the last fugitive convicted of murdering Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara has been found in a rural town and imprisoned — closing a legal chapter that spans half a century of impunity, exile, and grief. Jara, a 40-year-old activist and artist whose hands were broken before he was shot 44 times, became one of the most enduring symbols of Pinochet's brutality. The arrest of retired colonel Nelson Haase Mazzei does not undo what was done, but it affirms the stubborn persistence of accountability across generations. Justice, when it arrives th

Last fugitive in Víctor Jara murder case arrested 53 years after killing

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