Dossier
Chilean police
Coverage of Chilean police in the Nexus archive.
- A fugitive colonel is finally jailed in Chilean Víctor Jara’s murder case, decades after the crime
Chilean police have arrested a retired military colonel for the killing of singer-songwriter Víctor Jara over 50 years ago.
- A fugitive colonel is finally jailed in Chilean Víctor Jara's murder case, decades after the crime
A retired military colonel, Nelson Haase Mazzei, was arrested in Chile after being a fugitive for three years following his conviction for the 1973 murder of singer Víctor Jara during the Pinochet dictatorship. The arrest occurred decades after the crime, but Jara's family expressed dissatisfaction with the delayed justice.