A Fugitive Colonel Is Finally Jailed in Chilean Víctor Jara’s Murder Case, Decades After the Crime
Haase fled after a 25-year sentence was announced, and five of the seven convicted retired officers are already in prison, officials said.
- Chilean police captured retired Colonel Nelson Haase Mazzei on Saturday in Puyehue, ending three years as a fugitive after his conviction for kidnapping and murdering folk singer Victor Jara.
- Jara, a symbol of the New Chilean Song movement, was murdered on September 16, 1973, five days after General Augusto Pinochet's coup overthrew President Salvador Allende.
- After five years of appeals, the Supreme Court sentenced Haase Mazzei to 25 years and two days in prison; Judge Paola Plaza ordered his "immediate imprisonment" as the final convict to begin serving.
- "We appreciate this news," said Jara's daughter Amanda Jara, though she added it is "difficult to consider this justice" while the family advocates for broader accountability.
- During the 17-year dictatorship, official documents estimate more than 2,000 executed and 1,469 victims of enforced disappearance; Chile has established truth commissions investigating violations committed between 1973 and 1990.
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Nelson Haase Mazzei, the last wanted man in the case of the 1973 assassination of Chilean folk musician and political activist Víctor Jara, has been apprehended. The retired colonel, who had been on the run since 2023, will be sent to prison immediately.
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A fugitive colonel is finally jailed in Chilean Víctor Jara's murder case, decades after the crime
Chilean police have arrested a retired military colonel for the killing of singer-songwriter Víctor Jara over 50 years ago.
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A fugitive colonel is finally jailed in Chilean Víctor Jara’s murder case, decades after the crime
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — More than half a century passed before some measure of justice was served over the weekend for the murder of popular Chilean singer…
Amanda Jara, daughter of Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara, “appreciated” the arrest of the last convicted ex-military who remained at large for the kidnapping and murder of the artist in 1973, but said that, half a century later, she does not consider him “justice.”
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