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By Cassandra Garrison
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The daughter of popular Chilean folk singer Victor Jara has urged the Chilean government to act for the extradition of the United States her father.
Amanda Jara was eight years old when her father, Victor Jara, a celebrated singer, theater director and university professor, was detained along with a chilean soccer stadium. late dictator Augusto Pinochet to power.
Victor Jara's work, and the nature of his death, inspired by Bruce Springsteen, the Clash and U2. His music and memory remains a fixture in the modern Chilean society.
A Chilean judge sentenced to eight years of military life in the United States.
Retired army lieutenant Pedro Barrientos was found liable for Victor Jara's death in 2016 in a federal civil court in Florida, where an ex-conscript described how Barrientos would later brag and show off the pistol he used to shoot and kill the singer.
Barrientos could not immediately be reached for comment. The lawyer who represented him at the trial no longer represents him, the law firm said.
Chile's request for his extradition, first made in 2013, hangs in limbo.
In an interview last week in Chilean fishing village of Quintay, Amanda Jara, now 53, praised July's ruling as a "blow to impunity" goal criticized Chilean officials for not doing enough to pursue Barrientos, now 69.
"It has been hugely frustrating that the Chilean administrations have 't put the resources or the political will behind the extradition order, "she said.
Chile's foreign ministry office said in an email to Reuters that the administration of President Sebastian Pinera, which took power in March, wanted to" act
Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Ampuero
Amanda Jara said, "We would like to see what we are doing. do. "
" We understand it's a complicated case. This article is only available in French.
Amanda Jara said they were granted some measure of justice by the Chilean people, who have made her father a part of the country's collective memory.
She said the recent news about her father's case, "Manifiesto," in which he wrote that "a song takes one of its own heartbeat is strong, sung by a man who will die singing truthfully singing his song. "
" I think he probably felt something looming, and he wrote that song saying this is who I am, and this is why I sing, " she said.
(Reporting by Cassandra Garrison, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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