Cantos Cautivos

A Million Friends (Un millón de amigos)

Music piece by:

Roberto Carlos

Testimony by:

Pedro Mella Contreras

Experience in:

Recinto CNI calle Pérez Rosales 764, Valdivia, September 1986

Tags:

« I was arrested when I was 32 years old, along with approximately 23 other people. »

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The Brief Space Where You Are Absent (El breve espacio en que no estás)

Music piece by:

Pablo Milanés

Testimony by:

Pedro Mella Contreras

Experience in:

Penitenciaría de Santiago (Centro de Detención Preventiva Santiago Sur), April 1987

Tags:

« In the Penitentiary, we listened to the song 'The Brief Space Where You Are Absent' on the radio stations Aurora and Nuevo Mundo. »

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The Apparition (El aparecido)

Music piece by:

Víctor Jara

Testimony by:

Pedro Mella Contreras

Experience in:

Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, 1988-1989

Tags:

« When they took me out to physiotherapy treatment, I sang some verses of the song ‘The Apparition’ loudly: »

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« In January 1987, when solitary confinement was lifted and we were able to receive visitors, a brother who lived in Santiago travelled to see me. »

The Letter (La carta)

Music piece by:

Violeta Parra

Testimony by:

Pedro Mella Contreras

Experience in:

Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, 1987

Tags:

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« While waiting in the grandstands to be interrogated for the first, second or more times, we would sing 'Free' to those who were being lined up to be released. 'Free' was a catharsis, a mixture of joy for those who were going and hope for those of us left behind. Unfortunately, the dictatorship and its civil and military henchmen employed the song for their own propaganda. »

Music piece by:

José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.

Testimony by:

anonymous

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973

Tags:

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« José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo. »

« This song was performed in the Stadium grandstands by a worker from the Madeco factory: Peineta Vasquez, winner of a Song Festival that was organised at grassroots level, during the times when we were allowed to leave the spaces under the grandstands, inside the stadium, to sunbathe, together with women from various countries, before they got sent off to the pool area. »

Music piece by:

José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.

Testimony by:

Guillermo Orrego Valdebenito

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, 1973

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« José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo. »

« I’m from Chol Chol, part of the Coihue community. I was arrested along with 12 other people and they took us to the Second Police Station of Temuco. »

Music piece by:

José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.

Testimony by:

Paicavi Painemal

Experience in:

Comisaría de Carabineros N° 2, Temuco, 22 April 1985

Tags:

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« José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo. »

« I was taken prisoner on 23 November 1973, at the University of Concepción. In the Regional Stadium of Concepción, we had to sing the National Anthem every day. »

Music piece by:

José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.

Testimony by:

Marianella Ubilla

Experience in:

Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, Christmas 1973

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« José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo. »

A Cocky Fellow (El puntúo)

Music piece by:

Víctor Canto and Luis Cifuentes (lyrics), Roberto Parra (music)

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974

Tags:

« This cueca was composed in Chacabuco between November 1973 and February 1974, and was sung by the band Los de Chacabuco, to which Víctor Canto and I belonged. »

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« Víctor Canto and Luis Cifuentes (lyrics), Roberto Parra (music) »