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On Monday, June 27, a civil court in Orlando, Florida found Pedro Pablo Barrientos guilty for the murder of Chilean folk musician #Victor #Jara, which happened 43 years ago.
The court awarded Jara’s family $28 million in damages.
This is an historic decision because it was one of the very rare instances in which victims of human rights abuses sued a perpetrator of the abuse in a U.S. court.
Victor Jara was killed in Chile shortly after Augusto Pinochet’s coup against Salvador Allende in 1973.
Jara was a well-known Chilean folk musician and member of Chile’s Communist party at the time.
Here’s a clip from his song El derecho de vivir en paz (The right to live in peace)
