{"id":2096,"date":"2026-07-28T04:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:12:33","slug":"a-fugitive-colonel-is-finally-jailed-in-chilean-victor-jaras-murder-case-decades-after-the-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"A fugitive colonel is finally jailed in Chilean V\u00edctor Jara\u2019s murder case, decades after the crime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) \u2014 More than half a century passed before some measure of justice was served over the weekend for the murder of popular Chilean singer-songwriter V\u00edctor Jara. <\/p>\n

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Chilean police<\/span> on Saturday arrested a retired military colonel who had been a fugitive for three years after being convicted of kidnapping and murdering Jara during Chile\u2019s military dictatorship and sentenced to 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Despite the arrest, the musician\u2019s family says they are not completely satisfied.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learned that retired Colonel Nelson Haase Mazzei, who had been a fugitive from justice since 2023, was found and imprisoned. We appreciate this news,\u201d said Jara\u2019s daughter, Amanda Jara, in a letter published Sunday night. However, she added, \u201cit is difficult to consider this justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prominent military figure had been sentenced to 25 years and two days in prison for the kidnapping and murder of Jara and then-Director General of Prisons Littr\u00e9 Quiroga Carvajal.<\/p>\n

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Haase Mazzei, 80, was convicted in 2018 and his sentence was increased in 2023, along with those of six other military officers. The crimes are considered to be among the most emblematic examples of the brutality that marked the 17-year dictatorship of late Gen. Augusto Pinochet<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The former official fled before beginning his prison term. He was finally located and arrested this weekend \u2014 three years later \u2014 with Judge Paola Plaza of the Santiago Court of Appeals ordering his \u201cimmediate imprisonment,\u201d the Judiciary said in a statement. The institution added that Haase Mazzei was the last of those convicted to begin serving his sentence.<\/p>\n

One of the symbols of the so-called New Chilean Song, a musical and social movement born in the 1960s, Jara was murdered on Sept. 16, 1973, just five days after the coup that overthrew former President Salvador Allende<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Jara, then a 40-year-old member of the Communist Party of Chile who also worked as a professor at the State Technical University, was arrested on campus and taken to Chile Stadium, now renamed V\u00edctor Jara Stadium. There, he was separated from the nearly 5,000 other prisoners and taken to a private area. Along with Quiroga, he was tortured, violently assaulted and finally executed. The singer suffered multiple fractures and his body had 44 bullet wounds, according to the findings of an investigation into his death and other crimes of the period.<\/p>\n

In 1991, months after Pinochet\u2019s downfall<\/span> and the restoration of democracy, an official report by the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation found that Jara was the victim of a political execution and classified his killing as a grave human rights violation. It also found that, in just three months, 890 people were killed as a direct consequence of the military coup.<\/p>\n

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In recent decades, Chile has established a series of truth commissions to investigate and determine responsibility for the violations committed between 1973 and 1990, ranging from murders and torture to forced disappearances and the illegal adoption of children<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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