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- Music piece by:Unknown. Traditional Venezuelan song. Popularised in Chile by Isabel and Ángel Parra
- Testimony by:Carlos Muñoz
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, 1975 - 1976
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- « A comrade whose last name was Saavedra (if I recall correctly) sung this song passionately. This song earned him the nickname of
‘El Yopo’ (also ‘Chopo’) , as is usual in popular culture. »- [...]
- « Unknown. Traditional Venezuelan song. Popularised in Chile by Isabel and Ángel Parra »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Claudio Enrique Durán Pardo (Kila Chico)
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- « We made a Venezuelan cuatro from a large plank of wood attached to one of the walls of the "ranch" where we ate. »
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- « Latin American string instrument of the guitar family. National instrument of Venezuela and Puerto Rico. »
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- Music piece by:Celestino Carrasco
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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- « This old Venezuelan song, written by an unknown songwriter, and that has had many variations, was performed by Los de Chacabuco in during the camp’s weekly show. »
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- Music piece by:Tino Carrasco
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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- « Los de Chacabuco, a band founded and conducted by Ángel Parra, performed this Venezuelan folk song, in the style of a joropo, singing it at the weekly prison camp show. I dare say it was one of the favourite songs of the audience, comprised of political prisoners. »
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- « Venezuelan dance. Singing is accompanied by a harp or a cuatro and maracas. »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:anonymous
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973
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- « While waiting in the grandstands to be interrogated for the first, second or more times, we would sing 'Free' to those who were being lined up to be released. 'Free' was a catharsis, a mixture of joy for those who were going and hope for those of us left behind. Unfortunately, the dictatorship and its civil and military henchmen employed the song for their own propaganda. »
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- « a piece of metal »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:Guillermo Orrego Valdebenito
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- « This song was performed in the Stadium grandstands by a worker from the Madeco factory: Peineta Vasquez, winner of a Song Festival that was organised at grassroots level, during the times when we were allowed to leave the spaces under the grandstands, inside the stadium, to sunbathe, together with women from various countries, before they got sent off to the pool area. »
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- « a piece of metal »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:Paicavi Painemal
- Experience in:Comisaría de Carabineros N° 2, Temuco, 22 April 1985
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- « I’m from Chol Chol, part of the Coihue community. I was arrested along with 12 other people and they took us to the Second Police Station of Temuco. »
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- « a piece of metal »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:Marianella Ubilla
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, Christmas 1973
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- « I was taken prisoner on 23 November 1973, at the University of Concepción. In the Regional Stadium of Concepción, we had to sing the National Anthem every day. »
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- « a piece of metal »
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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:Attributed to Charles Albert Tindley
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Cárcel de Concepción / Cárcel El Manzano, December 1974
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- « When the concentration camp that operated for nearly five months at the Regional Stadium of Concepción was closed in early February 1974, hundreds of political prisoners were transferred to the Concepción Prison, a wing of which was turned into a concentration camp. »
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- « With those who became more advanced, I formed a nine-piece group, and between 1974 and 1975 we gave four 'concerts'. »
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- « A comrade whose last name was Saavedra (if I recall correctly) sung this song passionately. This song earned him the nickname of