Pedro barrientos nunez florida

U.S. Homeland Security Department officials in Florida said they took into custody a former Chilean army official wanted in Chile for “torture and extrajudicial killings” following the 1973 military coup that forced out then President Salvador Allende.

The special investigative unit from Tampa’s Space Coast office last week apprehended and arrested 74-year-old Pedro Paulo Barrientos Nunez in Deltona, north of Orlando.

The unit is called Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI. It investigates transnational crime.

The detention of Barrientos comes seven years after a federal jury in Florida found the former Chilean military lieutenant liable for the torture and murder of revered Chilean folk singer Victor Jara in the early 1970s.

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Jara’s family sued Barrientos 2013 in Jacksonville, Fla., accusi