We urge President Obama to cooperate fully and completely with the extradition request of the sovereign nation of Chile for the former lieutenant in Pinochet’s military, a Mr. Pedro Barrientos, who currently lives in Deltona, Florida, near Daytona Beach. Through Interpol Santiago, an international arrest warrant has for Mr. Pedro Barrientos has been issued by Judge Migues Vasquez according to an article in the New York Times.
Mr. Barrientos is wanted for questioning in the torture and extrajudicial murder of Victor Jara, an art professor, folk musician and political activist in Chile, in the year 1973. Professor Jara’s murder was conducted as part of the intense political repression and wave of murder to support a coup overthrowing the legally elected government of Chile. It is widely