A former lieutenant in the brutal regime of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet faces a lawsuit in Florida federal court in the abduction, torture and killing of renowned folk singer and political activist Victor Jara.

Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nuñez, claimed in the complaint to be living in Deltona, is being sued by the widow and daughters of Victor Jara, who was detained immediately following the Sept. 11, 1973, military coup. Pinochet ruled until 1990 and died in 2006.