US expels an ex-Chilean army officer accused of a folk singer’s torture and murder

JOSHUA GOODMAN

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. has expelled a former Chilean Army officer accused of torturing and killing folk singer Victor Jara during the country’s bloody 1973 coup. Pedro Barrientos had emigrated to Florida in 1990, the same year the bloody dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet came to an end. In 2016, Earlier this year he was stripped of his U.S. citizenship after it was found he concealed information about his Chilean military service during his immigration proceedings. Homeland Security Investigations said that Barrientos was removed Thursday on a flight from Miami and taken into custody by Chilean law enforcement officials upon his arrival in the South American country.