Cantos Cautivos

Jacqueline Misrahi, Lana Sebastian and Paul Sebastian. Popularised by Dalida in various languages: Italian ('Gigi L’amoroso'), Spanish ('Gigi el amoroso'), French ('Gigi l'amour'), English ('The Great Gigi l’amoroso'), German ('Gigi der Geliebte') and Japanese ('Ai suru Jiji').

Testimony by:

Eduardo René Cuevas

Experience in:

Regimiento de Infantería Reforzada Nº 3, Los Ángeles (nowadays Regimiento de Infantería Nº 17), October - November 1973

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« This song was used while the Military Intelligence Service (SIM) subjected me to cruel torture at a clandestine torture centre in the southern Chilean city of Los Ángeles. »

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« Jacqueline Misrahi, Lana Sebastian and Paul Sebastian. Popularised by Dalida in various languages: Italian ('Gigi L’amoroso'), Spanish ('Gigi el amoroso'), French ('Gigi l'amour'), English ('The Great Gigi l’amoroso'), German ('Gigi der Geliebte') and Japanese ('Ai suru Jiji'). »

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The Woman from Huillinco (La Huillincana)

Music piece by:

Liborio Bórquez Guzmán, popularised by Héctor Pavez

Testimony by:

Rubén Torres Ávila

Experience in:

Cárcel de Menores Blas Cañas / Centro de Reinserción Abierto Manuel Rodríguez, 1976

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« When I was in the last year of secondary school at the Liceo 8 in Santiago, I suggested to a teacher to do an interview with a prisoner of the youth detention centre Blas Cañas. After the interview, I offered the prison’s governor to take the school’s folk group to present a show to the inmates. »

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« Liborio Bórquez Guzmán, popularised by Héctor Pavez »

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We Shall Overcome

Music piece by:

Attributed to Charles Albert Tindley

Testimony by:

Alfonso Padilla Silva

Experience in:

Cárcel de Concepción / Cárcel El Manzano, December 1974

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« When the concentration camp that operated for nearly five months at the Regional Stadium of Concepción was closed in early February 1974, hundreds of political prisoners were transferred to the Concepción Prison, a wing of which was turned into a concentration camp. »

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« Work about the 1907 massacre of miners in the city of Iquique (Northern Chile). Composed by Luis Advis in 1969 and recorded by Quilapayún in 1970. »

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Filistoque's Cueca (Cueca del Filistoque)

Music piece by:

Víctor Canto Fuenzalida (lyrics), Efraín Navarro (music)

Testimony by:

Víctor Canto Fuenzalida

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, June 1974

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« Filistoque is a real-life person in all his mighty height (1.90 metres tall). I always remember him laughing. In Chacabuco, we shared a house for nearly ten months. Around him, you were never allowed to become depressed or get into a stew over our situation. »

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Lucky Devil (El suertúo)

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

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« This cueca was composed at Chacabuco sometime between November 1973 and February 1974 and was sung by Los de Chacabuco, of which Víctor Canto and I were members. »

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« This cueca was secretly recorded at Chacabuco by Alberto Corvalán Castillo, son of the Communist Party secretary-general Luis Corvalán, with assistance from Guillermo Orrego and Domingo Chávez. Alberto was to die in Bulgaria as a consequence of the torture to which he had been subjected at the National Stadium’s velodrome that caused him irreparable heart damage. »

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Partisan Anthem (Himno guerrillero)

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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