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Nine convicted for the death of Victor Jara

A Chilean court on Tuesday convicted nine former soldiers for the 1973 murder of Chile’s most famous folk singer, Victor Jara. A statement from the judiciary in Santiago on Tuesday said the judge had “convicted nine retired members of the army for their responsibility in the homicide of singer Victor Jara and the ex-director of prisons, Littre Quiroga Carvajal, in September 1973 in Santiago.”

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