Santiago, Chile: Victor Jara was a famous Chilean folksinger who was jailed and killed by the military government of Augusto Pinochet in 1973. He was among many political prisoners detained inside of a crudely reconfigured soccer stadium, where civilians were routinely tortured and killed. Jara attracted the attention of several of the military officers, who recognized him among the detainees. Several times he was pulled out of line, beaten with rifle butts in front of hundreds of witnesses, and taken into one of the interior rooms of the stadium. His body was found sometime later, pierced by forty-four bullets. The stadium in which he was killed was renamed in his honor.
