A member of the Sandinista Youth Movement paints a mural in honour of Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara, an active member of the Chilean Communist Party who died after the coup d'etat led by dictator Augusto Pinochet in September 1973, in Managua September 20, 2013. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - An army lieutenant under late Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet will face a civil trial in Florida this month for his involvement in the 1973 murder of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the U.S. human rights group bringing the suit said on Thursday.
Jara, also a poet and political activist, inspired generations of artists from U2 to Bruce Springsteen with his lyrical odes to the working class. A communist, he fell afoul of the Chilean government when leftist president Salvador Allende was overthrown by right-wing Pinochet in a bloody 1973 military coup.
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