Cantos Cautivos

anonymous Russian melody. During the Russian Revolution, several lyrics with different ideological content circulated. This version is based on 'Makhnovtchina', attributed to Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary.

Testimony by:

Julio Laks Feller

Experience in:

Recinto DINA, José Domingo Cañas Nº 1367, September 1974

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« In late September 1974, the Soviet partisan’s song was intoned softly but with an awe-inspiring force in the José Domingo Cañas torture centre. »

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« Andrónicos, Jorge »

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With the Sprouts I Sowed (Y con brotes de mi siembra)

Music piece by:

Andrés Rivanera (lyrics) and Eugenio Moglia (music). Popularised by Los Moros and Jorge Yáñez.

Testimony by:

Guillermo Orrego Valdebenito

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, 1974

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« In Chacabuco there were two theatres: one that was very beautiful and was linked to the old saltpetre works, where it is claimed (wrongly as it happens) that Caruso once performed, and another theatre that was inside the concentration camp. »

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« Andrés Rivanera (lyrics) and Eugenio Moglia (music). Popularised by Los Moros and Jorge Yáñez. »

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Return, Return (Volver, volver)

Music piece by:

Fernando Z. Maldonado. Popularised by Vicente Fernández

Testimony by:

Jorge Montealegre Iturra

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, 1974

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« At the Chacabucan artistic shows, Hugo sang tangos, including 'Volver' (Return) by Gardel and Le Pera. »

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« Jorge Montealegre Iturra »

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Alfonsina and the Sea (Alfonsina y el mar)

Music piece by:

Félix Luna (lyrics) and Ariel Ramírez (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa.

Testimony by:

Sergio Vesely

Experience in:

Villa Grimaldi, January 1975

Tags:

« It was not easy to endure being locked up in one of Villa Grimaldi’s miserable cells, which resembled vertical coffins. It was even harder in the high temperatures of the summer months of the Andes foothills in Peñalolén. I was inside one of those cells, blindfolded, my feet and hands in chains. »

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To Be Seventeen Again (Volver a los diecisiete)

Music piece by:

Violeta Parra

Testimony by:

David Quintana García

Experience in:

Intendencia de Rancagua, 1973

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« I spent 45 days in the torture centre of Intendencia de Rancagua. Previously, I was detained with my brothers in the headquarters of the Cuartel de Investigaciones de Rancagua. »

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« Violeta was one of my favourites; several times I went to the Peña de los Parra. I bought records there to sell in Caletones. It was something that I did to cooperate with Violeta and spread the music that they played there, more than to make money. »

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Recinto: Regimiento de Telecomunicaciones, Peñalolén

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Recinto: Retén de Carabineros, Peñaflor

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Blue Eyes (Ojos azules)

Music piece by:

attributed to Gilberto Rojas Enríquez (Bolivia), Manuel Casazola Huancco (Perú), and the Andean oral tradition. Popularised in Chile by Violeta Parra and her children Isabel and Ángel Parra.

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974

Tags:

« This is the last track on the cassette recorded by the band Los de Chacabuco in the concentration camp; it was digitised in 2015. »

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« You will cry when I leave »

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