Cantos Cautivos

Today I Sing for the Sake of Singing (Hoy canto por cantar)

Music piece by:

Nydia Caro and Riccardo Ceratto

Testimony by:

Beatriz Bataszew Contreras

Experience in:

Calle Irán Nº 3037 / Venda Sexy / La Discotheque, 12 - 18 December 1974

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« I have never been a great music listener. Nevertheless, before the coup I used to listen to Nueva Canción, especially Quilapayún and Rolando Alarcón. I also liked cumbias, to fool around. We would dance and have fun. »

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« that so many others have said »

Today I Sing for the Sake of Singing (Hoy canto por cantar)

Music piece by:

Nydia Caro and Riccardo Ceratto

Testimony by:

Ángeles Álvarez Cárdenas

Experience in:

Villa Grimaldi, 6 - 15 January 1975

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« At that time, many prisoners were subjected to extreme torture in the interrogations. Some managed to get through those processes alright, while others broke down. »

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« that so many others have said »

Reflections (Reflexiones)

Music piece by:

Sergio Vesely

Testimony by:

Sergio Vesely

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1975

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« Prison forced me to think quite a lot about my political past and my total commitment to an ideological cause, and its consequences. »

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« to my voice that has no solution? »

Errant Wind (Viento errante)

Music piece by:

Patricio Hermosilla Vives

Testimony by:

Patricio Hermosilla Vives

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January 1974

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« Finally, in the Chacabuco Concentration Camp, after three days aboard the Policarpo Toro (a war ship which had an uncertain destination since sailing from Valparaíso in December 1973; the question was not when and where we would dock, but how we would fall overboard), I felt that death had decided to take a step back and watch from me from a little further away. »

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« Oh errant wind that furiously blows »

For the Guy Who's Leaving

Music piece by:

Alfredo Zitarrosa

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November – April 1974

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« Marcelo Concha Bascuñán, a member of the Los de Chacabuco band, was a young man of great charisma and personal skills. He had been a swimming champion and was an outstanding guitarist and singer. »

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« It’s true that there are many things »

« 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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