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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How We Resemble Each Other (En qué nos parecemos)

Music piece by:

Unknown. Popularised by Quilapayún

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973

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« During the 1960s, the group Quilapayún popularised this old Spanish song in Chile. Víctor Canto and I performed it as a duet in Santiago’s National Stadium, which had been converted into a concentration, torture and extermination camp. »

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Answer Me

Music piece by:

Fred Rauch (lyrics) and Gerhard Winkler (music). English lyrics by Carl Sigman. Recorded by Frankie Laine.

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973

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« I sang this song, as a soloist, in the dressing rooms of the National Stadium. »

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Candombe for José (Candombe para José)

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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Ode to Joy (Himno a la alegría)

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:

Amelia Negrón

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, 31 December 1975

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