The right to live in peace
6 min readOct 21, 2022
Celebrating Víctor Jara, Chile’s poet of the resistance
September marked the 90th birthday of Víctor Jara: theater director, composer, singer, performer, and human rights champion. This text is excerpted from Righting Wrongs: 20 human rights heroes around the world.
His life and legacy remain an inspiration to Latin Americans as well as artists inspired…