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Chilean rock band Los Bunkers played concerts in front of the message: "The owners of the newspaper you read funded the death of Víctor Jara"

Jara was a famous leftist singer murdered by the US-backed Pinochet regime

(To be clear, these photos aren't new—they're back from 2012)
In the massive protests in recent weeks against Chile's Pinochet-esque billionaire oligarch President Piñera, protesters have been honoring the legacy of Víctor Jara and singing his songs of resistance
After the 1973 US coup against Chile's elected socialist President Salvador Allende (very similar to the coup in Bolivia we are seeing now), Pinochet's soldiers rounded up all the leftists and threw them in a concentration camp

They cut off Víctor Jara's fingers, then killed him
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