Cantos Cautivos
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- Music piece by:Rosario Sansores and Carlos Brito Benavides. Popularised in Chile by Lucho Barrios
- Testimony by:Juan Carlos de Luján Peralta Aranguiz
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- « I arrived in this place as a war prisoner when I was 16 years old. »
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Published on: 30 September 2019
The Brief Space Where You Are Absent (El breve espacio en que no estás)
- Music piece by:Pablo Milanés
- Testimony by:Pedro Mella Contreras
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- « In the Penitentiary, we listened to the song 'The Brief Space Where You Are Absent' on the radio stations Aurora and Nuevo Mundo. »
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Published on: 28 September 2019
- Music piece by:Roberto Carlos
- Testimony by:Pedro Mella Contreras
- Experience in:Recinto CNI calle Pérez Rosales 764, Valdivia, September 1986
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- « I was arrested when I was 32 years old, along with approximately 23 other people. »
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Published on: 28 September 2019
- Music piece by:Roberto Cantoral
- Testimony by:Ana María Arenas
- Experience in:Calle Irán Nº 3037 / Venda Sexy / La Discotheque, December 1974
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- « The day I was captured, after the first torture session, I asked for permission to sing a Christmas carol, the name of which I cannot remember. I did it to let one of my captive friends know that I was also at the Venda Sexy. »
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Published on: 24 August 2019
- Music piece by:Eduardo Gatti
- Testimony by:Scarlett Mathieu
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- « ‘Moments’ was a song sung by the female comrades whose partners were imprisoned on the other side of Tres Álamos, or were fugitives or disappeared. We all sang it, but it was like their anthem. »
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Published on: 11 June 2019
- Music piece by:Unknown. Popularised by Quilapayún
- Testimony by:Scarlett Mathieu
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- « In Cuatro Álamos, I was profoundly marked by the singing of a current detained-disappeared named Juan Chacón. He sang ‘En qué nos parecemos’, a love song from the Spanish Civil War. It remained engraved in me because that comrade disappeared from Cuatro Álamos. »
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Published on: 02 June 2019
You Will Pay (The Cigarette Smoke) (Pagarás [El humo del cigarrillo])
- Music piece by:Manuel Mantilla
- Testimony by:Fernando Aravena
- Experience in:Cárcel de Santiago, 1989
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- « The political prisoners were isolated but when they made us go down to the courtyard, we were with the common prisoners. »
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Published on: 27 April 2019
- Music piece by:Patricio Manns
- Testimony by:Fernando Aravena
- Experience in:Cárcel de Santiago, 1989
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- « The political prisoners organised mateadas once or twice a week, during which we did poetry and sang songs, amongst them ‘El cautivo de Til Til’ by Patricio Manns, ‘Samba Landó’ and ‘Vuelvo’ by Inti-Illimani, ‘Valparaíso’ by Osvaldo ‘Gitano’ Rodríguez, and songs by Eduardo ‘Gato’ Alquinta and Silvio Rodríguez. »
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Published on: 27 April 2019
- Music piece by:Patricio Manns (lyrics) and Horacio Salinas (music)
- Testimony by:Fernando Aravena
- Experience in:Cárcel de Santiago, 1989
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- « 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. »
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Published on: 27 April 2019
- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:David Quintana García
- Experience in:Intendencia de Rancagua, 1973