Editing Víctor Jara (section)

==Early life==
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Víctor Lidio Jara Martinez<ref>{{cite web |title=Jara Martinez Víctor Lidio |url=http://memoriaviva.com/nuevaweb/ejecutados-politicos/ejecutados-politicos-j/jara-martinez-victor-lidio/ |website=Memoria Viva |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=es}}</ref> was born on 28 September 1932.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jurado |first1=Omar |last2=Morales |first2=Juan Miguel |title=Víctor Jara: te recuerda Chile |date=2003 |publisher=Txalaparta |isbn=978-84-8136-301-2 |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blUWokxjEF8C&dq=victor+jara+nacio&pg=PA19 |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=es}}</ref> His parents were tenant farmers who lived near the town of La Quiriquina, located twelve kilometers from [[Chillán Viejo]]; he had five brothers.<ref name="biografia">{{cite web |title=Biografía Victora Jara |url=http://fundacionvictorjara.cl/biografia-victor-jara.php |website=Fundación Victor Jara |access-date=18 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141118231730/http://fundacionvictorjara.cl/biografia-victor-jara.php |archive-date=18 November 2014 |language=es |url-status=dead}}</ref> His exact place of birth is uncertain,<ref>{{cite web |title=78 años de misterio sobre su nacimiento |url=http://www.cronica.cl/cronica_chillan_base/site/artic/20100926/pags/20100926003900.html |website=Crónica Chillán |access-date=18 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429200653/http://www.cronica.cl/cronica_chillan_base/site/artic/20100926/pags/20100926003900.html |archive-date=29 April 2014 |language=es |url-status=dead}}</ref> but he was born in the [[Ñuble Region]]. At the age of five, his family moved to [[Lonquén]], a town near [[Santiago de Chile]], where his father, Manuel Jara, had rented a small parcel of land.<ref name="ladiscucion.cl">{{cite web |title=La frase desconocida de un tema de Víctor Jara en que asegura que nació en Niblinto |url=http://h.ladiscusion.cl/index.php/vidaycultura/vidaycultura1110121213/cultura631336175/27019-la-frase-desconocida-de-un-tema-de-victor-jara-en-que-asegura-que-nacio-en-niblinto |website=[[La Discusión]] |access-date=18 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701191103/http://h.ladiscusion.cl/index.php/vidaycultura/vidaycultura1110121213/cultura631336175/27019-la-frase-desconocida-de-un-tema-de-victor-jara-en-que-asegura-que-nacio-en-niblinto |archive-date=1 July 2016 |language=es |date=1 July 2016}}</ref> His father was illiterate and did not want his children going to school, so that they could help him in the fields instead. His mother, on the other hand, knew how to read a little and from the beginning she insisted that they at least learn the alphabet.<ref name="biografia" />

Jara's mother was a [[mestiza]] with [[Mapuche]] ancestry from southern Chile, who had taught herself to play the guitar and piano. She also performed as a singer, with a repertory of traditional folk songs that she used for local events like weddings and funerals.<ref>Jara, Joan. ''Víctor: An Unfinished Song'', 24-27</ref> The relationship between his parents became more tense with each passing day, his father began to drink and disappeared from the house several days in a row, leaving all the work in the hands of Amanda. Later, his mother moved to Santiago and took a job as a cook in a restaurant in Vega Poniente.{{clarify|date=December 2022}} Because she was so skilled she did well there and so she was able to educate three of her children, including Victor.<ref name="biografia" /> 

She died when Jara was 15. Jara began to study accounting, but soon moved into a seminary, where he studied for the priesthood. After a couple of years, however, he became disillusioned with the [[Catholic Church]] and left. Subsequently, he spent several years in the [[Chilean Army]] before returning to his hometown to pursue interests in folk music and theatre.<ref name="notablebiographies.com">{{Cite web|title = Victor Jara Biography - life, family, childhood, children, parents, death, wife, school|url = http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Fl-Ka/Jara-Victor.html|website = www.notablebiographies.com|access-date = 22 October 2015}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=I think it was a very intimate and affective affair. Looking back a little, now and with greater maturity, it was nothing more than loneliness, the disencounter with a world that you have kept solid, home and maternal affection and suddenly it disappears and everything disappears, so you have that affection next to young boys who have a relationship with a Church and well I took refuge there. Then I considered that this refuge led me to other values of encounter with another, deeper affection that perhaps came to balance that lack of interior affection, believing that I found that affection in religion, in dedicating myself to the priesthood.|author=Víctor Jara<ref name="biografia" />}}