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182 results where found for «The Crux of the Matter»
- 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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- « May you be the tomb of the free »
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- 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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- « 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. »
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- « May you be the tomb of the free »
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- Music piece by:Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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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. »
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- « May you be the tomb of the free »
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- 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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- « 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. »- [...]
- « May you be the tomb of the free »
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- Music piece by:Eduardo Serrano
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974
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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. »
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- « to the sound of the curbeta** »
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- Music piece by:Hans Leip
- Testimony by:Rogelio Felipe Castillo Acevedo
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, November 1974
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- « We were forced to belt out these marching songs. »
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- « from the lands of the earth »
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- 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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- « 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. »
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- « Let the poor of the world rise »
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- 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 »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
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- « 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. »
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- « hunger in the streets, hunger of the days »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
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