Cantos Cautivos

« The Puchuncaví detention camp’s daily routine included mandatory participation in the ceremonies of raising and taking down the Chilean flag on the flagpole at the entrance to the camp. »

Music piece by:

Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer

Testimony by:

Boris Chornik Aberbuch

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, March 1975

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« I was detained in Panguipulli on 24 September 1973, along with 17 other young people. I was a high school student. I was also working at the forestry and logging company of Huilo Huilo, which had been taken over by the working class. »

Music piece by:

Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer

Testimony by:

anonymous

Experience in:

Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973

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« The Puchuncaví Prisoners Camp had a daily routine similar to that of military regiments. In a ridiculous ceremony, the flag was raised every morning at dawn and then it was taken down at nightfall. »

Music piece by:

Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer

Testimony by:

Sergio Vesely

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1975

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« We arrived at Dawson Island on the afternoon of 11 September. All we knew was that we had been arrested in the morning - nothing else. »

Music piece by:

Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer

Testimony by:

Eduardo Ojeda

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, September 1973

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Story of the Chair (Historia de la silla)

Music piece by:

Silvio Rodríguez

Testimony by:

Eduardo Andrés Arancibia Ortiz

Experience in:

Cárcel de Santiago, 1990

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« This was one of the songs Silvio Rodríguez sang to us the day he visited the political prisoners in Santiago’s Public Jail in 1990. »

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« On the roadside, there is a chair »

« A very sad song, often performed by parents of young children. »

Sadness (Tristeza)

Music piece by:

Hermanos Núñez

Testimony by:

Germán Larrabe

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1974 -1976

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« I fight to death for you my treasure »

« 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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« under the streetlamp, we will be »

« 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. »

The Internationale

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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« Eugène Pottier (lyrics) and Pierre Degeyter (music). Popularised by Quilapayún in Chile in the 1970s. »

The Salamander (La salamanca)

Music piece by:

Arturo Dávalos

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January - February 1974

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« A salamanca is a type of salamander that lives in caves in northern Argentina. By extension, it also represents the cave. In this song, the lyricist turns the salamanca into a place where a coven of witches gathers. »

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« With the devil on his haunches the demon arrived »

The Prisoner of Til Til (El cautivo de Til Til)

Music piece by:

Patricio Manns

Testimony by:

Renato Alvarado Vidal

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, 1975

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« I arrived at Tres Álamos on the eve of the departure for Mexico with a large group of prisoners. The group included Dr. Ipinza, who before leaving entrusted me with the job of physician, the medicine donated by the Red Cross, and his position in the Council of Elders. »

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« All I know is that his mind has wandered »