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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« Marcelo Concha Bascuñán sang this song, which many of us liked. I personally knew Marcelo and we were both released from prison at the same time. I left the country, whereas Marcelo stayed in Chile. The DINA picked him up and since then he is one of so many disappeared people. »

Sufferings (Dolencias)

Music piece by:

Víctor Valencia Nieto

Testimony by:

Domingo Chávez Navarro

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - April 1974

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« if you once loved me »

Neither Fish nor Fowl (Ni chicha ni limoná)

Music piece by:

Víctor Jara

Testimony by:

Joaquín Vallejos

Experience in:

Academia de Guerra Naval, January 1974

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« I was arrested at home together with a childhood friend who they’d gone to pick up first. My family thought he’d stitched me up, which was not true. »

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« you spend your time stroking »

Beloved Friend (Amado amigo)

Music piece by:

Sergio Vesely

Testimony by:

Sergio Vesely

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1975

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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. »

« 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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« Won't you tell me where I've gone astray »

« 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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« Now I’m looking for you and you’re not here, I remember »