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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« This is one of the songs the band Los de Chacabuco arranged and performed at the weekly show authorised by the military. »

Barlovento

Music piece by:

Eduardo Serrano

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974

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« Barlovento, Barlovento »

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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« The friend's coat is laid out »

« Working as a documentary film-maker for some years, I recorded the stories of some of the prisoners during the dictatorship. It was during some of these sessions that the song 'Tamo Daleko' reappeared; it had been sung numerous times on Dawson Island. »

Far Away (Tamo daleko)

Music piece by:

Djordje Marinkovic. Chilean adaptation of traditional Serbian song, originally composed in 1916.

Testimony by:

Jorge Grez Leuquén

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, 2007

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« My Punta Arenas »

« At Compingin Camp on the island, Mario started telling us about the Spanish lyrics of the Yugoslav song 'Tamo daleko'. The song was not Croatian: it was Serbian. »

Far Away (Tamo daleko)

Music piece by:

Djordje Marinkovic. Chilean adaptation of traditional Serbian song, originally composed in 1916.

Testimony by:

Eduardo Ojeda

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, 1973

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« My Punta Arenas »

« 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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« like before, Lili Marlene. »

« 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. »