Victor Jara, present

For the Chilean nation, the crime against him has a historical weight similar to the shooting of García Lorca Around noon last Tuesday, agents from the Chilean Civil Police's Human Rights Brigade knocked on the door of an apartment in Las Condes, an affluent neighborhood of Santiago. They brought an arrest warrant for the third-floor resident, Hernán Chacon Soto, a retired Army general. The day before, the country's Supreme Court had upheld his …