Cantos Cautivos

« 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. »

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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« 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. »

Music piece by:

José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.

Testimony by:

Guillermo Orrego Valdebenito

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, 1973

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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. »

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 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. »

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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« We were forced to belt out these marching songs. »

Lili Marlene

Music piece by:

Hans Leip

Testimony by:

Rogelio Felipe Castillo Acevedo

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, November 1974

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« Soon the sentry called out »

The Dance of Those Left Behind (El baile de los que sobran)

Music piece by:

Los Prisioneros

Testimony by:

Eduardo Andrés Arancibia Ortiz

Experience in:

Cárcel de Santiago, 1986

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« I learnt about Los Prisioneros through the 'Hecho en Chile' programme on Radio Galaxia, presented by <n>Sergio 'Pirincho' Cárcamo</n>(1). Their music became our trench and musical poetry, like all other forms of struggles against dictatorship. »

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« that thing called education »

« During the daily flag-lowering ritual in the camp Melinka, the prisoners first had to get into formation in the courtyard and then walk in line to the location of the mast. »

Lili Marlene

Music piece by:

Hans Leip

Testimony by:

Renato Alvarado Vidal

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - Octobre 1975

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« Soon the sentry called out, »

Run Run Went up North (Run Run se fue pa'l norte)

Music piece by:

Violeta Parra

Testimony by:

Ernesto Parra Navarrete

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, 9 November 1973

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« Run Run... On the big pitch, mild summer weather was in the air. »

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« We would listen attentively for our names to be called out, in order to go and receive some personal item sent by our families, something to accompany us on our new journey into the unknown. »