Chile captures fugitive convicted of singer Victor Jara's murder under Pinochet
Summary
Chilean police have captured Nelson Haase, a retired colonel convicted for the kidnapping and murder of folk singer Victor Jara during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. Haase fled after his sentencing in August 2023 but was found in southern Chile in June 2024.Key Facts
- Victor Jara was a popular folk singer and supporter of socialist president Salvador Allende.
- Jara was kidnapped, tortured, and killed shortly after the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power.
- Haase was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2018 for Jara’s murder and kidnapping after a Supreme Court ruling in 2023.
- Haase disappeared after his sentencing and was captured nearly three years later in Puyehue, southern Chile.
- Haase was one of eight officers convicted for Jara’s death; five others are in jail, and one died by suicide when police came to arrest him.
- Thousands of people were arrested, tortured, or killed during Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship.
- In 2023, the US extradited retired army lieutenant Pedro Barrientos to Chile, who was found liable for Jara’s murder by a Florida jury.
- Jara’s death remains a symbol of human rights abuses under Pinochet’s regime.
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