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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « A few weeks before being transferred to Valparaíso Jail - where I would face a war council on account of alleged violations of the State Interior Security Law and other military regulations that existed during the state of siege - I wrote a song that I called anthem, because I wanted it to be sung as a group at the end of our cultural events on Fridays. »
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- « From what other prisoners have said, we know that the 'Himno de Puchuncaví' continued to be sung in the detention camp, both at the Friday cultural events as well as in everyday prison life – even after I was transferred to Valparaíso Jail. »
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- Music piece by:Claudio Iturra (lyrics) and Sergio Ortega (music)
- Testimony by:María Cecilia Marchant Rubilar
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, September 1973 - January 1974
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- « I was studying to be a chemistry teacher at the University of Chile in La Serena. I was 21 years old when I was arrested. I think I was picked up due to a specific fact. I was regularly sent copies of the El Rebelde newspaper by train, in order to distribute them in parts of Region IV. »
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- « Music was always present: we were always walking around with a song in our voice. I think it was the only way to cope a little with prison life. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Canto and Luis Cifuentes (lyrics), Roberto Parra (music)
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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cueca was composed in Chacabuco between November 1973 and February 1974, and was sung by the band Los de Chacabuco, to which Víctor Canto and I belonged. »- [...]
- « Group of prisoners who worked alongside the military in food preparation. Ranch members were supposed to have the privilege of greater access to food than the average prisoners. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Canto and Luis Cifuentes (lyrics), Roberto Parra (music)
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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cueca was composed at Chacabuco sometime between November 1973 and February 1974 and was sung by Los de Chacabuco, of which Víctor Canto and I were members. »- [...]
- « Often, groups of prisoners arriving at the camp from the Chile Stadium and other detention centres throughout the country were met with insults and blows. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « One cold winter night of 1975, the small clinic of Melinka, in the Puchuncaví Detention Camp, became the setting for a touching story. »
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- « At dawn, the news spread quickly and many of us took it as a sign of hope. A long line of prisoners formed outside the door to the infirmary in order to enter and greet the mother and the newborn baby. Many brought small but notable gifts. I wrote some verses on a piece of paper and I gave it to the mother. »
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- Music piece by:Rafael Alberti (lyrics), Ángel Parra (music)
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
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- « During Christmas 1973, approximately 660 men and 100 women were held as prisoners in the Concepción Regional Stadium. Concentration camp officials allowed us to celebrate Christmas on the pitch. We were in a corner of the pitch and we used the pole vault pit as a stage. »
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- « The experience of prisoners in many concentration camps and jails throughout the country shows that engaging in cultural and artistic activity - whether it be creating and performing theatre, writing poems and stories, as well as essays, and producing crafts or music - was of vital importance in strengthening our personal and collective moral, an attitude of resistance and the sense of unity among political prisoners. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Jara
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
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- « During Christmas 1973, I was one of some 600 men and 100 women prisoners in Concepción Regional Stadium. »
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- « The experience of prisoners in many concentration camps and jails throughout the country shows that engaging in cultural and artistic activity - whether it be creating and performing theatre, writing poems and stories, as well as essays, and producing crafts or music - was of vital importance in strengthening our personal and collective moral, an attitude of resistance and the sense of unity among political prisoners. »
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- Music piece by:Eugène Pottier (lyrics) and Pierre Degeyter (music). Popularised by Quilapayún in Chile in the 1970s.
- Testimony by:Ana María Jiménez
- Experience in:Villa Grimaldi, April 1975
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- « In April 1975, the triumph of Vietnam was celebrated. We heard about it through a comrade who went to the bathroom and found a piece of the week’s newspaper. It was so beautiful for us to be there, having shouted so often for Vietnam at demonstrations. »
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- « So a group of prisoners from
the Tower decided to sing a bit from 'The Internationale'. And we sang all together. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Artidorio Cresseri
- Testimony by:Germán Larrabe
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1974 - 1976
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- « This zamba was the first song we tried to perform in Puchuncaví, with a group made up of prisoners transferred from Chacabuco Detention Camp together with us, newly arrived 'puchuncas'. »
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- Music piece by:Manuel José Castilla (lyrics) and Gustavo Leguizamón (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
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- « We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of
11 September . We knew that we had been arrested that morning, and we knew nothing else yet. »- [...]
- « The next day, another group of prisoners arrived. They told us that
Salvador Allende had died. We paid tribute to him around a bonfire. It was deeply meaningful. »- [Read full testimony]
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