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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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- « unknown. Folk tune from the Andes highlands »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « This song, written in my cell at the Puchuncaví Prison Camp, speaks to a friend and fellow prisoner; it could be any one of the thousands behind bars. »
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- « suddenly I see you become a man. »
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- Music piece by:Manuel José Castilla (lyrics) and Gustavo Leguizamón (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
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- « We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of
11 September . We knew that we had been arrested that morning, and we knew nothing else yet. »- [...]
- « Manuel José Castilla (lyrics) and Gustavo Leguizamón (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa »
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- Music piece by: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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- Music piece by:Quelentaro (Gastón and Eduardo Guzmán)
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 – February 1974
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- « From the first time I heard it, I was impressed by the way the duo Quelentaro sang this song, which was also written by them. When I sang it, I always tried to sing it in their style. I never sang it on stage, only for myself or for small groups of friends strumming guitars together. »
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- « contained a thousand shades of shadow »
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- Music piece by:Roberto Ternán
- Testimony by:Alejandro Olate
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- « The youngest among us, aged 17 or even 16 years, did the heaviest work on Dawson Island. We had to fell trees, cut them, split them in two, cut them into wedges, and walk the several hundred meters back to the barracks carrying the logs on our shoulders. »
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- « You are a devil but also a friend, Negro José »
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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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- « You are a devil but also a friend, Negro José »
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- Music piece by:Andrés Rivanera (lyrics) and Eugenio Moglia (music). Popularised by Los Moros and Jorge Yáñez.
- Testimony by:Guillermo Orrego Valdebenito
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- « In Chacabuco there were two theatres: one that was very beautiful and was linked to the old saltpetre works, where it is claimed (wrongly as it happens) that Caruso once performed, and another theatre that was inside the concentration camp. »
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- « death passed by last night »
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- 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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- « Fred Rauch (lyrics) and Gerhard Winkler (music). English lyrics by Carl Sigman. Recorded by Frankie Laine. »
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- Music piece by:Sandro
- Testimony by:Nelly Andrade Alcaino
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- « We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of