Cantos Cautivos
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The Dead Man Won't Be Pinned on Me (Ese muerto no lo cargo yo)
- Music piece by:Graciela Arango de Tobón, popularised in Chile by Giolito y su Combo, and by Los Vikings 5
- Testimony by:Joaquín Real Hermosilla
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- « From that troubled time, I would like to remember an activity that kept us active during the harsh confinement in Las Bandurrias. It is about music, an artistic expression that revealed the talent of several political prisoners and allowed us to endure the confinement for almost six months. »
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- « The nervousness began when one of the horses, who was already very old, fell ill. He was thin and listless, lay around all day and refused to go out into the yard. When we found out that ‘Don Goyo’, as the horse was called, was no longer responsive, we did everything we could to save his life. »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Felipe Chiang Martínez
- Experience in:Regimiento de Infantería Motorizada Nº 23, Copiapó, October-December 1973
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- « I was born in Vallenar, but I have lived in Copiapó practically all my life. At the age of 18, I started working in the mines and also began my political activity. »
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- « I was arrested on 5 October '73. That day, I had gone to visit my mother, and when I got off the bus, two officers arrested me. They took me to the Carabineros Prefecture and then transferred me to the Copiapó Regiment. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « After our transfer from Tres Álamos to Puchuncaví in April 1975, a group of prisoners began toying with the idea of presenting a poetic-theatrical performance about the history of Latin America’s indigenous cultures and their extermination under Iberian domination. »
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- « he comes and goes with the zamba dance. »
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- Music piece by:Hermanos Núñez
- Testimony by:Germán Larrabe
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1974 -1976
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- « A very sad song, often performed by parents of young children. »
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- « for I’ll go with my child to gather caresses. »
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- Music piece by:Unknown
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974
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- « This is another song that was performed by the band Los de Chacabuco and was sung in the prisoners’ weekly show. It’s a very old Mexican song that was popular in Chile. »
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- « if Adelita were to go with another »
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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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- « On that occasion, our newly formed band (without a name) performed the following programme: 'Soy del pueblo' ('I Am of the People') by Carlos Puebla; 'El aparecido' ('The Apparition') by Víctor Jara; 'Los pueblos americanos' ('The American Peoples') by Violeta Parra; 'Vamos a Serchil' ('Let's Go to Serchil') by the Guatemalan Leopoldo Ramírez; 'Del Norte vengo, Maruca' ('I Come from the North, Maruca') by Ángel Parra (although some people say it was written by his mother); 'Villancico nortino' ('Northern Christmas Carol'), a traditional song; and finally 'We Shall Overcome', written between 1950 and 1960 in the United States within the context of the Afro-American civil rights movement. »
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- 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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- « 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. »
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- « One of the dogs, that seemed to have a good ear and musicality, joined us in the song, although not in unison. His howl could be heard between stanzas: »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Jara
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
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- « During Christmas 1973, I was one of some 600 men and 100 women prisoners in Concepción Regional Stadium. »
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- « For this event, Father Camilo Vial, later appointed bishop, provided us with a very good Spanish guitar. The priest played a very important role in defending the rights of political prisoners in the horrible conditions we were held. »
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- Music piece by:original by Friedrich von Schiller (lyrics) and Ludwig van Beethoven (music). Free version in Spanish by Amado Regueiro Rodríguez, aka Orbe (lyrics) y Waldo de los Ríos (music), popularised in Chile by Miguel Ríos.
- Testimony by:Luis Madariaga
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1974 - 1976
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- « In prison, we would sing the 'Ode to Joy' when a comrade was released or sent to exile. »
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- « This had been quite noticeable because there were many of us up there surrounding the gallery's handrails. It was our way of expressing our disapproval for this man who was on good terms with Chile’s criminal dictatorship. Then Iglesias left. »
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- Music piece by:Roberto Ternán
- Testimony by:Sara De Witt
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, September 1976
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- « We were in Tres Álamos barracks in September 1976. I don’t recall how many of us women were imprisoned there. I believe there were close to a hundred of us. »
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- « The departing comrades were moved to tears, but they had to go. We kept singing to accompany them with our voices as they regained their freedom. »
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