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Víctor Jara: No to Dictatorship

Víctor Jara: No to Dictatorship

Doucey, Bruno
Diver, Ruth

Hardcover

Series: They Said No

BiographyGeneral Juvenile FictionHistory

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ISBN10: 1644211823
ISBN13: 9781644211823
Publisher: Triangle Square
Published: Mar 7 2023
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.70 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
The only story for young readers of the legendary Chilean songwriter and activist who became a symbol of peace amidst the brutality of Augusto Pinochet's regime.

On September 11, 1973, in Santiago de Chile, Augusto Pinochet took power and installed a dictatorship in place of the democratic government of President Salvador Allende. That day Victor Jara, a young songwriter and activist, poet and playwright is arrested and imprisoned with hundreds of other people in the Santiago stadium because of his association with the socialist opposition. His hands, so crucial to playing music, are broken by one of Pinochet's soldiers. He is executed in the stadium days later, but his protest songs will continue to resound to this day, as does his defiance in singing, Venceremos, We Will Overcome, in the stadium.

Pinochet will die at an advanced age without having answered for his crimes that were committed in an effort to crush dissent. But we celebrate the brave and defiant artists and activists like Victor Jara who help us to remember our humanity in the face of oppressive dictatorships.

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