Widow of Chile folk singer Victor Jara asks US to extradite a suspect in his 1973 killing

SANTIAGO, Chile – The widow of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara is calling on the United States to extradite a retired military official charged with his murder during Chile’s 1973 coup.

Pedro Barrientos Nunez now lives in Florida and has denied any role in the death of Jara, which is remembered as one of the Chilean dictatorship’s most brutal crimes.

Joan Jara held a news conference Wednesday in the stadium where Jara and thousands of other leftists were detained during the coup. She said the charges against Barrientos and seven other former officers is a sign of hope that justice is possible for all the deaths and disappearances. More than 3,000 people were killed by state authorities during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

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