209 results where found for «Run Run se fue pa'l norte»
- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Ernesto Parra Navarrete
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, 9 November 1973
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- « Run Run... On the big pitch, mild summer weather was in the air. »
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- « Run Run Went up North (Run Run se fue pa'l norte) »
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- 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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- « On that occasion, our newly formed band (without a name) performed the following programme: 'Soy del pueblo' ('I Am of the People') by Carlos Puebla; 'El aparecido' ('The Apparition') by Víctor Jara; 'Los pueblos americanos' ('The American Peoples') by Violeta Parra; 'Vamos a Serchil' ('Let's Go to Serchil') by the Guatemalan Leopoldo Ramírez; 'Del Norte vengo, Maruca' ('I Come from the North, Maruca') by Ángel Parra (although some people say it was written by his mother); 'Villancico nortino' ('Northern Christmas Carol'), a traditional song; and finally 'We Shall Overcome', written between 1950 and 1960 in the United States within the context of the Afro-American civil rights movement. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Jara
- Testimony by:Pedro Mella Contreras
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, 1988-1989
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- « When they took me out to physiotherapy treatment, I sang some verses of the song ‘The Apparition’ loudly: »
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- « Run because they will kill you »
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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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- « 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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- Music piece by:Jorge Peña Hen
- Testimony by:María Fedora Peña
- Experience in:Cárcel de la Serena, October 1973
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- « 'Look here, Maria Fedora. I’ve brought you a treasure', it was the voice of my brother Juan Cristián as he crossed the doorway of our mother’s house one morning in January 1983. »
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- « The knot in my throat tightened again, as I felt the big tears running down my cheeks. The diminutive crotchets, quavers and minims run up and down the stave. It’s a posthumous composition! In the most bitter moments of his life, he had the nobility to do what he loved doing above all else! »
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- Music piece by:lyrics: collective creation; music: 'Jálame la pitita' by Luis Abanto Morales (Peruvian polka)
- Testimony by:María Cecilia Marchant Rubilar
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, September 1973 - January 1974
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- « We always sang this song when we were taken to Regimiento Arica. That was a torture centre. »
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- « This prison had been a children's home before. It was run by the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. People always said that these were 'good' nuns. I don’t know if that’s the right word. It sticks in my throat that consecrated nuns should be able to accept female political prisoners. »
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- Music piece by:Roberto Ternán
- Testimony by:Amelia Negrón
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, June 1976
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- « We were in Pavilion 1. One of us came up with the idea, I can’t remember who. There were so many of us and we spent the day inventing and creating things! »
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- « Then we see the guys running out with tables, benches, seats, and sitting down to see us play. They tuned charangos, bombos and guitars and began singing, singing to us at the top of their voices. Over a hundred prisoners singing in unison. It was stirring. »
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- Music piece by:unknown. Folk tune from the Andes highlands
- Testimony by:Guillermo Orrego
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- « In 1974 - I don’t quite remember the month - the Chacabuco Olympics were held. The opening ceremony consisted of symbolically carrying the Olympic torch through the concentration camp. »
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- « There was a tremendous uproar, and the march left from the corner of our house at number 26, pavilion 5, next to our University, in the middle of the Civic District. The fervour grew as we were all running next to El Tigre and reached another pavilion after a few laps around the Olympic course. »
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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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- « They punished us for singing songs that were too subversive for them, such as ‘Canción con todos’, popularised by Mercedes Sosa, which says ‘and a river runs in my blood / that releases in my voice / its flow’. »
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Recinto: Subcomisaría Norte, Antofagasta (Actual Comisaría de Carabineros Nº 2, Antofagasta)- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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