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Prayer So You Don't Forget Me (Oración para que no me olvides)

Music piece by:

Óscar Castro (words) and Ariel Arancibia González (music)

Testimony by:

Rosalía Martínez

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, November - December 1974

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« When Katia Chornik contacted me a few years ago asking me to provide my testimony about my musical experience in prison, I thought I didn’t have much to say. »

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« Óscar Castro (words) and Ariel Arancibia González (music) »

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Captain, our Destiny is a Wandering Island (Capitán, el rumbo es una isla errante)

Music piece by:

Sergio Vesely

Testimony by:

Sergio Vesely

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1975

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« This song was dedicated to Óscar Castro, whom I was lucky enough to meet in 1975, in Puchuncaví. With his experience in theatre – Óscar was already a fairly well-known actor before his arrest – he threw himself into the cultural work we had organised, in what was then called “Camp Melinka” where the prisoners presented a show every Friday. »

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King Ñaca Ñaca (El rey Ñaca Ñaca)

Music piece by:

Sergio Vesely

Testimony by:

Renato Alvarado Vidal

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - October 1975

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« During the last third of the 20th century, the concentration camps of the Chilean dictatorship were characterised by a high grade of organisation among prisoners, as well as the overflowing creativity they applied to all areas of human ingenuity. »

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« The highlight was the theatre, where the great Óscar 'Cuervo' Castro made existence into a permanent performance. He proclaimed himself Mayor and received the new arrivals with a tricolour plywood banner and a speech as uplifting as it was absurd. »

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Lucky Devil (El suertúo)

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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« This 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. »

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« The group Los de Chacabuco was created and conducted by Ángel Parra. Its members (in alphabetical order) were: Víctor Canto, Manuel Castro, Ángel Cereceda Parra (Ángel Parra), Luis Cifuentes, Marcelo Concha, Luis Corvalán Márquez, Antonio González, Manuel Ipinza, Ernesto Parra, Julio Vega and Ricardo Yocelewski. »

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Let’s Break the Morning (Rompamos la mañana)

Music piece by:

René “Popeye” Cárdenas Eugenin

Testimony by:

María Soledad Ruiz Ovando

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, 1973 - 1974

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« Music was very important for us (my mother Sylvia, my sister Alejandra and myself) while my dad, Daniel Ruiz Oyarzo, 'el Negro Ruiz', was imprisoned during the dictatorship, when Alejandra was seven and I was four. »

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« Later on, when my father was released from prison and sent to internal exile in Castro, Chiloé, we travelled with him. »

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