
909 results where found for «La guerra de los Vargas»
- Music piece by:Celestino Carrasco
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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- « This old Venezuelan song, written by an unknown songwriter, and that has had many variations, was performed by Los de Chacabuco in during the camp’s weekly show. »
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- « The Vargas War (La guerra de los Vargas) »
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- Music piece by: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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- « Few of us from that group survived. But the voices of Lumi Videla, María Cristina López-Stewart, Aldo and Carlos Pérez Vargas, the brothers Jorge Andrónicos Antequera and Juan Carlos Andrónicos Antequera, Antonio Llidó, Ariel Salinas, Cecilia Bojanic and her husband Flavio Oyarzún, Francisco Aedo, Mario Calderón, Alfredo Rojas Castañeda, José Jara, Manuel Villalobos, and David Silberman continue to echo in our memory. »
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- Music piece by:Eduardo Gatti
- Testimony by:Scarlett Mathieu
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- « ‘Moments’ was a song sung by the female comrades whose partners were imprisoned on the other side of Tres Álamos, or were fugitives or disappeared. We all sang it, but it was like their anthem. »
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- « When someone was expelled, we sang the tango ‘Volver’ by Carlos Gardel. Also ‘No volveré’ by Chabela Vargas, although it was a bit negative. »
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From the Poplars I have Come, Mother (De los álamos vengo, madre)
- Music piece by:Juan Vásquez
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
- Tags:
- « Los de Chacabuco, a band created and conducted by Ángel Parra, performed this traditional Spanish song at the Chacabuco concentration camp. »
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- « From the Poplars I have Come, Mother (De los álamos vengo, madre) »
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- Music piece by:José Agustín Goytisolo (lyrics) and Paco Ibáñez (music)
- Testimony by:Amelia Negrón
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, 1975 and 1976, until the closure of Tres Álamos
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- « There were so many of us women prisoners. Despite the circumstances, we had managed to invent our own world, one with our rules, according to what we thought and wanted for ourselves, our families and all the Chilean people. »
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- « One song went like this: 'La vida es bella ya verás, como a pesar de los pesares, tendrás amigos, tendrás amor, tendrás amigos. Un hombre solo, una mujer, así tomados, de uno en uno, son como polvo, no son nada, no son nada'. (Life is beautiful you'll see, despite everything, you’ll have friends, find love, have friends. A man alone, a woman alone, are like dust, are nothing, are nothing.) »
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- Music piece by:Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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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. »
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- « But, looking at it with different eyes, it also was amusing, because it gave us another chance to sing at the top of our voices the line that goes: “Que o la tumba serás de los libres, o el asilo contra la opresión” (May you be the grave of the free or the refuge from oppression). »
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- Music piece by:Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski
- Testimony by:César Montiel
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
- Tags:
- « In Colonia Dignidad, they played Swan Lake by
Tchaikovsky a lot. It was very repetitive. To several comrades, it reminds them of torture. It is not very enjoyable for us to listen to this piece at this life stage, because it transports us back to all the suffering, to what they did to us. »- [...]
- « Lago de los cisnes »
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- Music piece by:Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski
- Testimony by:Carmen Espinoza Alegría
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « When we arrived at Colonia Dignidad, they threw us into a shed. I despaired, took off my hood and a guard gave me a slap so hard that I fell to the ground. This was my arrival at the Colonia. »
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- « El lago de los cisnes »
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- Music piece by:Sandro
- Testimony by:Nelly Andrade Alcaino
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- « In Colonia Dignidad, they played Swan Lake by