This Saturday a memorial was inaugurated in the Metropolitan Cemetery of Santiago de Chile in tribute to the Chilean singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, in the exact place where his body was found on September 16, 1973.
Joan Jara, the singer-songwriter’s widow, was in charge of presenting the mural in which you can read “For the right to live in peace”, in a ceremony that had the support of the Metropolitan Cemetery which was also attended by the Minister of Culture from Chile, Claudia Barattini.
The memorial stands at the intersection of Eduardo Frei and La Feria streets, in the popular neighborhood of Lo Espejo, right on the spot where the bodies of Víctor Jara and Littré Quiroga, who was director of the Prison Service, appeared a few days later. of the coup d’état of September 11, 1973.
In that place, close to the Metropolitan Cemetery, other lifeless bodies were found that could never be identified and to which the memorial also pays homage.
