![]() ![]() The poem stretches the entrance to the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago. Jara's wife, Joan, presented her research into her husband's final days in her essays and 1984 memoir An Unfinished Song. The "manifesto" survived through both the detainees who memorized the song and the scraps of paper containing Jara's handwritten lyrics. He was found dead a week later with signs of brutal treatment and gunshot wounds. ![]() The guards tore off his nails, smashed his hands, and ordered him to play the guitar. The militia recognized him for his song and fame and removed him from the crowd. Along with Andean and Chilean folk songs, he sang a "manifesto" composed his second night there. ![]() Jara, a popular folksinger, sang for the other detainees to maintain morale. Víctor Jara was detained in Estadio Chile among thousands of others during the 1973 Chilean military coup against the Unidad Popular government, of which Jara was an icon. Jara was tortured and killed by the Chilean Army over several days in Santiago's Estadio Chile (renamed Estadio Víctor Jara in 2004) during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. ![]() " Estadio Chile", or " Somos Cinco Mil", is the common name of an untitled poem and song credited to Víctor Jara and penned in the days prior to his death. ![]()
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