Chile’s democratically elected left-wing president, Salvador Allende, is overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the Chilean military. The presidential palace, known as La Moneda, is bombed repeatedly. By the end of the day, Allende is dead and Augusto Pinochet appoints himself president. During the following seventeen years, thousands of Chileans face imprisonment, torture, and disappearance […]

Victor Jara was not just a singer-songwriter. He was a complete artist, an innovative theater director, a poet of the everyday, and a tireless activist. His figure transcends the tragedy of his assassination to become an eternal symbol of resistance and hope. In the Chile of the Unidad Popular, his voice accompanied the dream of […]