A retired army colonel has been charged in the killing of renowned Chilean folk singer Victor Jara following the US-backed 1973 coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Col Mario Manriquez was charged by a judge investigating the killing of Victor Jara in September 1973
Judge Juan Fuentes said he had ended his investigation into the case and charged recently retired Col. Mario Manriquez, saying he was "responsible" for the death.
Fuentes had taken over the investagion in 2005 from another judge, who initially announced plans to charge Manriquez.
A lawyer for the Jara family, Nelson Caucoto, said he will appeal the decision to close the probe with no other people charged.
Jara was among the best-known members of Latin America's "New Song" folk movement of the 1960s and 1970s and a supporter of Chile's elected socialist president, Salvador Allende.
Jara was arrested after the Sept. 11, 1973, military coup that overthrew Allende and he was taken to a soccer stadium used as a detention camp.
Along with thousands of others, Jara was repeatedly beaten and tortured; the bones in his hands were broken as were his ribs. He was then machine-gunned to death.
His death turned Jara into an international symbol of resistance to the Pinochet government.
Before his death, he wrote a poem on a paper that was hidden inside a shoe of a friend. The poem, about the conditions of the prisoners in the stadium, was never named, but is commonly known as
Estadio Chile.