Florida Jury Finds Ex-Chilean Officer Liable in a Killing During the 1973 Coup

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Pascale Bonnefoy, Florida Jury Finds Ex-Chilean Officer Liable in a Killing During the 1973 Coup; A naturalized American is ordered to pay millions to a folk singer's family. New York Times, June 28, 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/2 ... r-jara-lawsuit.html

Note:
(a) Pascale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascale
(French; the corresponding male form, in French, is Pascal)

* Blaise Pascal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
(1623 – 1662; a French mathematician)

(b) Chilean Víctor Jara * * * His widow, the British dancer Joan Jara, and her daughters Manuela and Amanda, who were 13 and 8 at the time, moved to Britain and have been seeking to hold their father's killers to account ever since. * * * Mrs Jara, 88 * * * [said: '] I was never able to remarry. I had been very much in love with Víctor [1932 - 1973].' "
(i) The Spanish surname Jara is from "any of the various places in southern Spain named Jara or La Jara, from [Spanish noun] jara rockrose, cistus."

rock rose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_rose
(includes "Cistaceae, the 'rock rose family' ")
(ii) Joan Jara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jara
(born Joan Alison Turner in England in 1927)
(iii) search images.google.com with (Manuela and Amanda Jara) -- no quotation marks -- and you will find their present and childhood photos.

(c) "The former officer, Pedro Pablo Barrientos, 67 * * * was taken to court [for trial, because he was sued] on June 13 by the Center for Justice & Accountability, a San Francisco-based legal advocacy group, and the New York law firm Chadbourne & Parke [which represents the center].  They filed a civil lawsuit against Mr. Barrientos in 2013 on behalf of the Jara family under the Torture Victim Protection Act, designed to hold human rights violators living in the United States accountable."

(d) "Several former soldiers testified through videotaped depositions last year that they were part of the section from the Tejas Verdes regiment under the direct orders of Mr Barrientos at the stadium."

Spanish English dictionary:
* teja (noun feminine; plural tejas): "roof tile"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/teja

Spanish adjective masculine and feminine verde: green
(e) "Two former prisoners gave details of the violence, killings and suicides that took place in the stadium": Boris Navia and Erica Osorio.