US expels an ex-Chilean army officer accused of a folk singer's torture and murder

BY JOSHUA GOODMAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UPDATED DECEMBER 02, 2023 4:05 PM

MIAMI The U.S. has expelled a former Chilean Army officer accused of torturing and killing folk singer Victor Jara during the country's bloody 1973 coup. Pedro Barrientos had emigrated to Florida in 1990, the same year the bloody dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet came to an end. This year, he was stripped of his U.S. citizenship after it was found he concealed information about his Chilean military service during his immigration proceedings.

Jara, a popular singer and university professor, was a fervent supporter of socialist President Salvador Allende. He was seized and taken to a Santiago stadium where thousands of prisoners were held only hours after Pinochet assaulted the presidential palace and overthrew Allende on Sept. 11, 1973. There, he was beaten and he was shot with at least 44 bullets — one of the first of more than 3,000 Chileans killed for opposing Pinochet's iron-fisted rule.

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Prisoners being held in Chile Statium



Torturer, murderer Pedro Barrientos at earlier stages of his life, in Chile.(2nd one taken when activists tracked him down, once, at his apartment.)







Being returned to Chile.