How a Folk Singer’s Murder Forced Chile to Confront Its Past | Retro Report
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2018
- Victor Jara was a legendary Chilean folk singer and political activist whose brutal murder during a military coup in 1973 went unsolved for decades. Now, his family may get justice. Lesson plan for educators: bit.ly/RR-Chile
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The fact that people still think that Allende was worse than Pinochet (Including the U.S. Government at the time) is absolutely sickening. I encourage you to do research on Colonia Dignidad if you disagree.
Exactly! I stumbled upon its gruesome past a while ago.... blood curdling... all of the Colony's leaders were "amigos de corazon" with Pinochet and his rabid anti-communist (read anti-people) goons.
@@annasavitskaia3021 yeah,it's horrible and scary when some people try to justify dictatorships by showing some vague economic growth(it is capitalism for you) as if economic growth will heal the collective trauma of chile
People that say that obviously know nothing about Allende, Pinochet or Chile
Oh, yeah! You " forgot " the Krasnov clan. 😀
Oh, don't get me started on that and on the role the Krasnov clan played in the Chilean trainwreck.
My father was among the tortured during the coup in Chile. He fled the country and i was 7yrs when the rest of the family rejoined him abroad. Visited Chile as a 12yr kid but when i was an adult he came forward and told me the horror he had to endure. I hated the country for a long time and have never visited again. This video brings me to tears to think about what he experienced along with so many others.
Hope he is doing well, as much as you too
I hear and understand you 150%- a very good friend of mine " disappeared " in Kharkiv, Ukraine in March of 2022 and we still don't know if he's alive or dead. But try to understand- Pinochet or clan Krasnov are not Chile. And Bandera and Zelensky are not Ukraine. You don't get mad at your " wife " for " getting gang raped ". You stand by her and help her heal and recover.
Chileans never, ever imagined the horror and suffering that was going to be unleashed by the military dictatorship. I was a young 15 year girl when they violently took over and will never forget what I and thousands of Chileans saw and experienced. My father and uncle were also taken and kept in the stadium but luckily they survived. The wounds are still open because justice has not really been done. The US and the Chileans that supported the dictatorship have blood on their hands.
You've got no idea how I feel for you and your loved ones. In 2014 in Ukraine the Chilean past became our present. I always loved Ariel Dorfman but never in my worst nightmares did I ever think I was gonna become the Ukrainian version of him.
That is United States' game or strategy for the whole world. polarising the whole globe to sit and kneel at their wish and command and their rubbish economic thoughts. You all were brave atleast to oppose that. many nations stupidly accept their bullshit without any retaliance.
@@mrsoumikghosh5900 Thank you my dearest. No pasaran!
i m a Chinese. I will come to Mr. Allende's grave and lay flowers on it on 11/9/2023
@@tatianalyulkin410
Wish you’d be safe and sound through this hard time
I rly hope there could be a way of removing all neo-nazis without harming the innocents
I was also in Santiago, Chile as a young school girl in the 70s. I will never forget the crimes, the horror. Nixon, ITT , Pepsi Cola financed the coup… Te amo Victor.
Nothing's changed. These days it's Soros and Nuland and Zelensky and Kolomojsky.
Bless you , I in Great Britain know, with many others , of the CIA and the military juntas' crimes.
Hopefully the world will know enough about this terrible period to learn that it will never again be tolerated.
@@tatianalyulkin410 Sorry, but you are forgetting some bad guys in your list. Ukraine has done the same errors of Israel in its constitution, creating a sort of apartheid of Russian ethnicity, but this is nothing more than a pretest for the fascist Putin to start his war. I'm not supporting Ukraine for its own merits, but I will support whoever will try to get rid of that fascist in charge in Moscow, for the sake of Russia and its people. Second, what the hell has Soros to do with all this? It seems that you have been brainwashed by the fakes like the Kalergy plan, an old Nazi theory totally false. We should fight against every nationalism, instead. Together with bigotry, nationalism is the cause of every political issue and every conflict. Nationalists and bigots are closer to monkeys more than Darwin himself could suspect.
I've been living in Chile for three years, originally from the US. The experience of living here from 2017 - 2020 has been a journey, first just experiencing the beauty and culture of Chile... Then making a life here, and then experiencing the protests of 2019 followed by the pandemic in 2020. I have learned so much. Being a tourist is one thing, but living in another country opens your eyes to what is going on in the world. Recently I started having a desire to learn more about famous Chileans such as Pablo Neruda, Violeta parra, and Víctor Jara. It's both fascinating and extremely emotional. I appreciate this documentary and definitely feel the need to share it with friends in the US.
Exactly, you have to be living here to understand the reality of southamerica. Tourists only see the marketing side of this country.
Thank you. Love from chile ❤🇨🇱
Thank you
When was it- 2011? We've moved to San Francisco from NY and I'm studying at City College. And I decide to take a Spanish class. So I'm looking through the textbook at home and I see a Chapter on Violetta. But there is one problem- there is no Uncle Victor! He's not mentioned once! So the next morning the future real life General Leia Organa of the Donbass Rebel Alliance drops the class! So no- the world is definitely not Pinochets and Krasnovs and Banderas. I know it's hard but to my fellow fascist terror survivors- keep the faith and hold the line. Because we don't want " them " to come back again.
Don’t forget it’s an American documentary with left wing bias. Jara was a beautiful artist, but the country was falling into the hands of these vicious greedy socialist who cut the lines, and took all our hard earned wealth and distributed only to the people in charge. Don’t be fooled by the sad stories, Allende was destroying our way of life. Unfortunately Jara was a casualty of war. You only hear about him because he was a celebrity. What about the others??
Victor Jara is truly a testament to a man who died loving what he did and did so well. This is an unbounded and unsilenced legacy.
I read his book called “unfinished song” it was so sad to say how they treated him while in custody.. totally inhuman. RIP
“Un Canto Truncada” (An Unfinished Song) was written about Victor Jara by his widow, Joan Jara, a British Subject who fled Chile with her children, after Victor was assassinated. All of their luggage was filled with Victor’s Music, unrecorded songs Victor had written, movies and audio tapes of Victor performing, rehearsing, with his young children. She was incredibly brave and strong.
Very few people know but he was a theater director as well.
@@stephanielee9407 this is a great book, I read back then in 2002, and treasure this copy today (says it is 1998 edition), I think originally from the VictorJara Foundation in Santiago - that I visited knocking on the door - and an older lady answered and heard my stumbling explanation and may have sold it to me. I am not quite sure now. If it was Joan I am blessed, maybe another volunteer. This lady knew somehow I was an idealistic western anglo from Australia and dissolved by the truth and the beauty of the music heard with local red wine and a quake shiver in a high rise flat. How she knew I don't know but it was true. And good consequences followed in the 11th region after that.
My father were one of the lucky ones that escaped the claws of Pinochet and fled Chile in -74. He ended up in Sweden alongside alot of his countrymen. Unfortunatelly he passed away a couple of years ago but I grew up with Victor Jaras music.
Con Víctor Jara en el Corazón, desde la Patagonia- Chile.
Damn she had to drag him to his grave and bury him herself. :(.
At least he had a grave.
Enjoy your analysis of a great artist like Víctor. I could tell that in every song he sang with pure feeling. What I like the most is that he was a humble person and committed to his people, one who does not give up on the obstacles that the path of life presented him with. For me he is an example to follow and a benchmark of Latin American music and culture. Victor may not be with us but he will continue in our hearts and we will gladly continue listening to his songs. I hope that over time artists who have Victor as a musical reference continue to emerge to continue creating a musical legacy defined by culture and sentiment. Definitely Victor was, is and always will be a milestone in Latin American music. PS: Greetings from an Ecuadorian born in Spain and lover of Latin American music
Also his soul was not for sale.
@@tatianalyulkin410 Exactly
Beutiful video, thank you from Chile!
We are working on adding Spanish subtitles. Then you can hopefully share with friends :)
Reminds me of Dean Reed and his role as a cultural, musical “ambassador”. Cultural diplomacy at its best.
Thank you for producing such quality content. These stories are beyond valuable.
Oh, those two were inseparable! Dean Reed made a movie about Victor Jara.
Good job telling this horrible story of injustice and cruelty.
Victor Jara deserves better
Víctor Jara infinito y eterno. Siempre vivirás en el corazón del pueblo consciente.
Estoy aqui por Residente 👊[R] Esto es lo que la musica y el arte tambien se supone que haga... Educar y hacerte descubrir historia importante de tu mundo.
Same
I was a little child the first time I heard about Victor Jara from my uncle. From that day l was been curious about this world we are living.
I'm not curious- I'm terrified.
Barrientos needs to be dragged down to Chile and have him face his crimes... All of Chile knew who Victor Jara was and Barrientos says he didn't know who Victor was... BULLSHIT!!!
These are some clips from the fascinating documentary I saw about Victor Jara a few years ago, and the horror that the Chilean people experienced during that tragic time. One of the best documentaries I have ever seen.
Thank you [R]. I like listening to history from any part of the world.
phenomenal report, hermoso video! victor siempre vive en nuestros corazones
Such an amazing and brave man.
That he is.
Victor Jara siempre vive en nuestros corazones
VIVA VICTOR JARA!
VICTOR🔥 JARA ❤ GRANDE ENTRE GRANDE 1000 GRACIAS POR CANTARLE A TU PUEBLO(CHILENO)Y MESTIZO
The problem with the US and our foreign policy throughout the era of the Cold War is that we did not discriminate between democratically elected socialist administrations and communist dictators. And even now we have the repercussions of these actions.
You had no right to invade and destroy societies even if they were "communist dictatorships" either buddy.
Well, unfortunately, we live in a global society where the actions of the government of one country far away from our own could still potentially impact us. So unless the country democratically elected a particular leader, I would say that the United States does have an obligation to work within that country to depose that dictator, regardless of any specific ideology, and support the citizens' rights to elect a government towards their own genuine interests. I say "genuine", because many dictators throughout history have gained power by manipulating a minority of influential citizens in a country and then just deceiving the rest into submission.
And where did that interventionist foreign policies led the US? To unwinnable wars; quagmires like Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. It destabilized Latin America leading to crisis migration waves to your country. Shame that the US has all this technological capability but has no moral standing to talk about democracy since it has proven to be hypocritical on the world stage in the name of vague strategic goals.
@@brandondavidson4085 It's clear you vastly underestimate the true intentions behind your country's "pro-democracy" international policies.
@@brandondavidson4085 The US orchestrated dictatorships in all latin american countries during the cold war, even in the countries where left wing governments weren't in power, latin american countries were your colonies basically you did whathever you want . You guys had corporate interests in the region, US companies owned most of latin america's ressources for e.g.: chilean copper, venezuelan oil, entire countries were considered playgrounds for US fruit multinationals (El Salvador, Ecuador, Colombia etc) the term "banana republic" comes from here, cuba before castro was a literal US colony you guys owned all the sugar plantations. Any form of political power that opposed this US corporate oppression was labelled as "socialist", trust me if the US was treated the same way you guys treated us, half your population would've been "socialist". The reason the US was so worried in the 1st place about Allende the chilean socialist that was elected , is because he wanted to nationalise chilean copper and kick US companies out.
But this is isn't taught in US schools so I don't really blame you guys for being so ignorant on your history.
He is living out of space time , ever and ever!
He inspires me to do better
BRAVO!!!
I sympathize with Victor as a man, a father, a musician and someone who walked his talk. Even though I am very much opposed to his political ideology, I recognize his passion that he lived and died for.
A very great loss
Qué alma más linda
September 16 1973. RIP Victor Jara. I'm sure a few gringos and Cuban fascists in Florida believe Barrientos' at his word. The rest of the world does not.
Just because those in power were scared to loose it-and any one who defends using violence and murder as a way to resolve any type of conflict is missing a vital piece of their being..i survived this conflict,i am sad that I didn’t get to grow up in my country,i mourn for the loss of life of my loved ones and those who died standing up to wrong, i understand that Pinochets Chile indeed brought us to economic growth and power,but at the cost of our fellow human beings is no gain at all..
Fuck the economic growth it is a worthless way of justifying violence and dictatorship it's like saying stalin brought economic growth by butchering his oppinents
@@manjur597 yes it is, it has no justification, but it did do a job, regardless, greed is the root of your own downfall, and those who partake must get that extra off some one else, and thats life in a nutshell from a resource viewpoint
@@manjur597 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Well, at least you got something. Ukraine got bubkes.
Or we could’ve been like Cuba, I’m sure we would’ve suffered more….
World need more victor jara to fight against facisim ❤️
I wanna be like him
Barrientos has guilty written all over him
Yep. Your typical Nazi. Sorry he got caught.
Main lesson: Don't ever let USA interfere your country politic. They will always try to take over other country
Hope karma gets them
@@notwerkinginthishouse8634 with countries I feel it's a lot more complex we shouldn't really make 1000's of people suffer for the actions of not even half of the people who live in the area let's just hope the people who did wrong pay for it
And one is supposed to stop the Kissingers and the Nudelmans of this world exactly HOW? Look what they're doing to Julian Assange. And Putin is the only thing that stands between my brother and Edward Snowden and the torture chambers of some Black Ops American prison in Poland somewhere.
where can I find the footage at the end where he's talking about the fundamental importance of love? (13:09)
adonde puedo econtrar los imágenes que salen al final, en cuales Jara esta hablando de la importancia del amor? (13:09)
Víctor Jara TV Perú
that says it all... he is in USA
🌹🌹🌹
Neoliberalism was born and will die in chile. Rest in power. ✊
Cancion dedicada a Salvador Allende - con amor desde Malasia - The Final Hours of Salvador Allende (ruclips.net/video/q5LgeeC-GhI/видео.html)
The CIA...
Lucifer always takes a very good care of his own.
I was tortured and I was only 14.
For all those who died in the coup R I P.
Shame on the CIA and military who murdered these people.
Me: see the 3:46 and asked herself
"why is always a bombing?"
Because it's terrifying. They did the same on Donbass in 2014. My brother and his Rebels were not even in Lugansk but the Loyalist planes came anyway.
M
Barrientos was stripped of his American citizenship as of 2023
All this with the approval of the USA/CIA
The COCO vibe..
ajajajaj los izquierdosos, y sus idolos, VIVA PINOCHET POR SIEMPRE !!!!
Pinchet Sucks.
At the (very) least, Chile has moved on from Pinochet to become the most stable nation and economy in the region - the dictatorships of its neighbors (and the 'democracies' of countries like Colombia) have left broken nations in their wake which have yet to recover, and possibly never will.
Bryan well, do you still stand by this statement?
Jaja, time has the right
sure jan
11 months ago.... Just before October 2019!
@@clacicle Lmao it looks like chile has a lot of marxists
This is such rubbish. Right after Pinochet left, Chile established a truth an reconciliation commission that was the eventual template for similar matters in South Africa, Liberia etc. Vctor Jara, as magnificent a musician as he was, was not the only victim of that dark time in the in South America's history. Remember there were hundreds of thousands of victims of torture that made Chile the subject of many of the History textbooks studied in South America and the Caribbean. There were bigger things to deal with than Jara's murder. And they were dealt with. That closure has taken so long is down to the discovery of disappeared remains well into the 2010s. Chile confronted its past long before Jara became an international phenomenon in 2009 when his remains were given a proper burial.
Feeling some pangs of conscience there?
BS. There was no closure. Michelle Bachelett was my hero, I worshipped the ground she walked on. And she becomes the Human Rights Commissioner but she refused to say a word about the people of Donbass who were ( and are ) being slaughtered. She could have done so much but she chose to pretend nothing was happening! What closure are you babbling about when a Chilean fascist terror survivor throws a Ukrainian fascist terror survivor under the bus??? If you cannot trust " your own ", who the hell can you trust?
No. They're pure evil. No conscience, no honor and no remorse.
I prefer the view he was an international phenom when Dylan, Seeger and others held concerts for him in the 70ies. So forget 2009. And when you say he was only one, this is a misconception and probably a little sophist. His voice with its magnificient authenticity and artistry was a proxy, indeed a true voice, of hundreds of thousands in his country. There is nothing rubbish about that except perhaps shallow analytical postures. He nursed Joan back to health, and my take is he was re-living the death of his mother who died of over work rising at 2 or 3 am to feed workers starting at 4, 5 or 6 am. So he knew the hardship of the poor and he loved them with a mother's love for him. This is a great human story that may be told without hesitation.
@@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts me? No. I just have issues with the posers, the bonos, the actors and actresses who suddenly know or care about victor Jara. I have much of Jara’s music digitally. Songs like Deja vida Volar and Lullaby for a lonely child. The people who sshould have pangs of conscience( although I think personally there’s a point where a person moves from action they can show remorse for, like an accident to pure cruelty and evil which they probably wouldn’t feel sorry about) are the same people running from the Chilean court system,many of them in exile. Or they are being protected for political expediency. The lady, for example, who was the assistant to one of Pinochet’s most depraved torturers, where is she? Adriana Rivas? Up until last year she was fighting extradition in Australia, a country she had been in for decades
well would you had prefered to be under russian rule? the US had to see its interest first as well , this was an injustice but had to be done for the greater good which translates in the Chile being the first or the second best economy in latin america.
There is a difference between a democratically elected socialist government and an out right communist dictatorship. Rationalizing based on fear is not rational at all.
@@Zenth93 when a country is too ignorant democracy is not useful. John Kennedy said something like that.
No. It wasn't worth it.
We did the same shit in Central America and just look at how fucked up it is now.
This is no excuse. I don’t believe sacrificing the will of the people for the profit of some investors is what freedom means. The U.S. espouses itself as a beacon of freedom and democracy, and yet proceeds to perpetrate a dictatorship that murdered 3,000 people, and tortured 27,000 more. This was all done AGAINST the will of the people, not democratically. This fear of “Russian rule” was nothing more than a lie to keep the Chilean people in the right sphere of influence. You truly must have no humanity if you believe human life is expendable to those seeking nothing more than money and power.