[4] Before he died, he arranged for a message to be smuggled out of the stadium to his wife, telling her where he had last parked their car and saying that he loved her.

[4] Having left Chile in 1973, she changed her surname to Jara, and dedicated herself to perpetuating the memory of her husband, his works, and his values.

[2] She returned to Chile in 1984 to revive his memory,[2] publishing her book An Unfinished Song: The Life of Victor Jara that year.

[1] Her lawyer added that the Chilean military has a "pact of silence" against providing information to the families of the disappeared, and that the low-level soldiers' testimony was pivotal to their officer identification efforts.

[1] In 2013, Jara filed a civil lawsuit against a former military officer she charged as responsible for her husband's death, Pedro Barrientos, who lived in Florida for about 20 years and became an American citizen[1] through marriage.

[4] The lawsuit was filed under the Torture Victim Protection Act and the Alien Tort Statute, a federal law that lets American courts try foreign human rights disputes.

[6] Following Joan's death, her body lay at Centro de Danza Espiral, the dance school she founded with her first husband, Chilean choreographer Patricio Bunster, prior to her burial on 15 November.