Cantos Cautivos

Unknown. 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

Tags:

« 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. Our comrade and beloved friend Sergio Pérez Molina, leader of the MIR who had fallen into the hands of the DINA a few days earlier, was being tortured again. We had already seen him disfigured by the blows; they had even applied electricity to a bullet wound when they shot him at the time of his arrest. Moren Brito boasted that he had run a pick-up truck over Sergio’s body. »

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« Jara, José »

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Balderrama

Song by:

Manuel José Castilla (lyrics) and Gustavo Leguizamón (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa

Testimony by:

Eduardo Ojeda

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, 1973

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« We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of 11 September. We knew that we had been arrested that morning, and we knew nothing else yet. The next day, another group of prisoners arrived.They told us that Salvador Allende had died. We paid tribute to him around a bonfire. It was deeply meaningful. »

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« Manuel José Castilla (lyrics) and Gustavo Leguizamón (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa »

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