Cantos Cautivos

« The Puchuncaví detention camp’s daily routine included mandatory participation in the ceremonies of raising and taking down the Chilean flag on the flagpole at the entrance to the camp. »

Music piece by:

Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer

Testimony by:

Boris Chornik Aberbuch

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, March 1975

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« I was detained in Panguipulli on 24 September 1973, along with 17 other young people. I was a high school student. I was also working at the forestry and logging company of Huilo Huilo, which had been taken over by the working class. »

Music piece by:

Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer

Testimony by:

anonymous

Experience in:

Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973

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« The Puchuncaví Prisoners Camp had a daily routine similar to that of military regiments. In a ridiculous ceremony, the flag was raised every morning at dawn and then it was taken down at nightfall. »

Music piece by:

Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer

Testimony by:

Sergio Vesely

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1975

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« We arrived at Dawson Island on the afternoon of 11 September. All we knew was that we had been arrested in the morning - nothing else. »

Music piece by:

Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer

Testimony by:

Eduardo Ojeda

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, September 1973

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« At Compingin Camp on the island, Mario started telling us about the Spanish lyrics of the Yugoslav song 'Tamo daleko'. The song was not Croatian: it was Serbian. »

Far Away (Tamo daleko)

Music piece by:

Djordje Marinkovic. Chilean adaptation of traditional Serbian song, originally composed in 1916.

Testimony by:

Eduardo Ojeda

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, 1973

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« is my beloved sweetheart »

With the Sprouts I Sowed (Y con brotes de mi siembra)

Music piece by:

Andrés Rivanera (lyrics) and Eugenio Moglia (music). Popularised by Los Moros and Jorge Yáñez.

Testimony by:

Guillermo Orrego Valdebenito

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, 1974

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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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« The sweetest thing I told you »

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

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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« Sweetheart. »

« I was 19 years old when they arrested me. I was one of the youngest political prisoners at the time in Arica. »

Friend (Amiga)

Music piece by:

Miguel Bosé

Testimony by:

Carolina Videla

Experience in:

Cárcel Pública de Arica, January 1989

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« How sweet this word sounds today »

« During our mateadas in the Prison of Santiago, we always talked about the song ‘Vuelvo’ (I Come Back). It gave you the hope of returning to the fight. The prison was only something temporary. »

I Come Back (Vuelvo)

Music piece by:

Patricio Manns (lyrics) and Horacio Salinas (music)

Testimony by:

Fernando Aravena

Experience in:

Cárcel de Santiago, 1989

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« my prediction, my sweetness »

Creole Mass – Gloria (Misa criolla - Gloria)

Music piece by:

Ariel Ramírez

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November – December 1973

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« As far as I remember (and there may be other versions), Los de Chacabuco band was founded by Ángel Parra in response to a request by the Army chaplain Varela, who asked for assistance for the Mass he celebrated for both prisoners and soldiers. »

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« Lord Jesus Christ, Only-Begotten Son »