Cantos Cautivos

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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« 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. »

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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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« This is one of the songs the band Los de Chacabuco arranged and performed at the weekly show authorised by the military. »

Barlovento

Music piece by:

Eduardo Serrano

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974

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« to the sound of the curbeta** »

« We were forced to belt out these marching songs. »

Lili Marlene

Music piece by:

Hans Leip

Testimony by:

Rogelio Felipe Castillo Acevedo

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, November 1974

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« from the lands of the earth »

« In April 1975, the triumph of Vietnam was celebrated. We heard about it through a comrade who went to the bathroom and found a piece of the week’s newspaper. It was so beautiful for us to be there, having shouted so often for Vietnam at demonstrations. »

The Internationale

Music piece by:

Eugène Pottier (lyrics) and Pierre Degeyter (music). Popularised by Quilapayún in Chile in the 1970s.

Testimony by:

Ana María Jiménez

Experience in:

Villa Grimaldi, April 1975

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« Let the poor of the world rise »

The Vargas War (La guerra de los Vargas)

Music piece by:

Celestino Carrasco

Testimony by:

Luis Cifuentes Seves

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974

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« This old Venezuelan song, written by an unknown songwriter, and that has had many variations, was performed by Los de Chacabuco in during the camp’s weekly show. »

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« The war of the Vargas family »

« This song was written and sung in cell number 198 of Valparaíso’s former prison, that is to say, on the top floor of the main building, which was higher than the walls that surrounded it. »

Valparaíso

Music piece by:

Sergio Vesely

Testimony by:

Sergio Vesely

Experience in:

Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976

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« hunger in the streets, hunger of the days »

Song of the Disappeared (Canción del desaparecido)

Music piece by:

Sergio Vesely

Testimony by:

Sergio Vesely

Experience in:

Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976

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« Several of my friends and comrades disappeared after being arrested. The dictatorship denied knowledge of their whereabouts but I knew they were lying. »

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« will wound the ideals of the libertarian. »