https://fd.tllester.info/tags/chile/Recent content in Chile on freeDimensionalHugoen-usSun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://fd.tllester.info/eight-charged-with-victor-jaras-1973-murder-in-chile/Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://fd.tllester.info/eight-charged-with-victor-jaras-1973-murder-in-chile/<p><a href="https://fd.tllester.info/freedimensional/images/victorjara.jpg"><img src="https://fd.tllester.info/freedimensional/images/victorjara-300x300.jpg" alt="victorjara"></a>SANTIAGO, Chile — Eight retired army officers were charged on Friday with the murder of a popular songwriter and theater director, Víctor Jara, who was tortured and killed days after the 1973 military coup in a stadium that had been turned into a detention center.</p> <p>Judge Miguel Vásquez charged two of the former officers, Pedro Barrientos and Hugo Sánchez, with committing the murder and six others as accomplices. Mr. Sánchez, a lieutenant colonel, was second in command at the stadium. Mr. Barrientos, a lieutenant from a Tejas Verdes army unit, currently lives in Deltona, a city southwest of Daytona Beach, Fla., and was interrogated by the F.B.I. earlier this year at the request of a Chilean court. Attempts to reach Mr. Barrientos for comment were unsuccessful; his two listed telephone numbers had been disconnected.</p>