Vague Question About a Tortured Guitarist...

[Bluesview]

Can anyone tell me who was the guitarist who had his hands cut off by a
dictator(?) in a soccer stadium in the '50s(?) in a Latin American country?

Parker

[Kate Ebneter]

Bluesview wrote:
> Can anyone tell me who was the guitarist who had his hands cut off by a
> dictator(?) in a soccer stadium in the '50s(?) in a Latin American country?

Victor Jara. He was tortured and murdered after the military coup in
Chile in 1973. His hands may or may not have actually been cut off;
some reports say they were broken, but not cut off. Another fine
atrocity courtesy of the CIA.

Kate Ebneter
Collector of Noise Toys

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

As Kate Ebneter <ebneter@ix.netcom.com> so eloquently put:
[] Bluesview wrote:
[] > Can anyone tell me who was the guitarist who had his hands cut off by a
[] > dictator(?) in a soccer stadium in the '50s(?) in a Latin American country?
[]
[] Victor Jara. He was tortured and murdered after the military coup in
[] Chile in 1973. His hands may or may not have actually been cut off;
[] some reports say they were broken, but not cut off. Another fine
[] atrocity courtesy of the CIA.

Interesting. A google turned up the following:

http://www.msu.edu/~chapmanb/jara/eindex.html

Chris


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