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- Music piece by:Hamlet Lima Quintana
- Testimony by:Ana María Jiménez
- Experience in:Villa Grimaldi, April 1975
- Tags:
- Ana María Jiménez
- Villa Grimaldi
- Metropolitana Region
- Zamba so as Not to Die
- Zamba para no morir
- Hamlet Lima Quintana
- #Female narrator
- #Listening to music
- #Description of prison life
- #Torture
- #Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Music as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Relationship with prisoners
- #Relationship with agents
- #Resilience
- #Solidarity
- #Mourning
- « I want to recall a night at Villa Grimaldi. »
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Published on: 15 December 2014
I’m Not from Here - To my Comrade, my Love (No soy de aquí - A mi compañera)
- Music piece by:Facundo Cabral, with lyrics modified by a political prisoner
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
- Tags:
- Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, Concepción
- Biobío Region
- I’m Not from Here - To my Comrade, my Love
- No soy de aquí - A mi compañera
- Facundo Cabral
- #Male narrator
- #Modified lyrics
- #Music piece from Argentina
- #Writing music
- #Listening to music
- #Solidarity
- #Collective singing
- #Rehearsal
- « The choir of male prisoners sang a piece called 'A mi compañera' (To my comrade, my love) to the music of 'No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá' (I'm not from here, nor from there) by Facundo Cabral. »
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Published on: 15 December 2014
- Music piece by:Víctor Canto Fuenzalida (lyrics), Efraín Navarro (music)
- Testimony by:Víctor Canto Fuenzalida
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, June 1974
- Tags:
- « Filistoque is a real-life person in all his mighty height (1.90 metres tall). I always remember him laughing. In Chacabuco, we shared a house for nearly ten months. Around him, you were never allowed to become depressed or get into a stew over our situation. »
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Published on: 15 December 2014
- Music piece by:Rafael Alberti (lyrics), Ángel Parra (music)
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
- Tags:
- Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, Concepción
- Biobío Region
- The Soldier
- El soldado
- Rafael Alberti
- Ángel Parra
- #Male narrator
- #Listening to music
- #Music piece from Spain
- #Description of prison life
- #Relationship with prisoners
- #Relationship with agents
- #Resilience
- #Humour
- #Solidarity
- #Instrument
- #Collective singing
- #Celebration
- « During Christmas 1973, approximately 660 men and 100 women were held as prisoners in the Concepción Regional Stadium. Concentration camp officials allowed us to celebrate Christmas on the pitch. We were in a corner of the pitch and we used the pole vault pit as a stage. »
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Published on: 15 December 2014
- Music piece by:Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
- Testimony by:Boris Chornik Aberbuch
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, March 1975
- Tags:
- Boris Chornik Aberbuch
- Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví
- Valparaíso Region
- National Anthem of Chile
- Eusebio Lillo
- Ramón Carnicer
- #Male narrator
- #Music piece from Chile
- #Listening to music
- #Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Music as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Relationship with prisoners
- #Relationship with agents
- #Humour
- #Collective singing
- « 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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Published on: 15 December 2014
- Music piece by:Víctor Jara
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
- Tags:
- « During Christmas 1973, I was one of some 600 men and 100 women prisoners in Concepción Regional Stadium. »
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Published on: 15 December 2014
- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Ernesto Parra Navarrete
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, 9 November 1973
- Tags:
- Ernesto Parra Navarrete
- Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional
- Metropolitana Region
- Run Run Went up North
- Run Run se fue pa'l norte
- Violeta Parra
- #Male narrator
- #Listening to music
- #Music piece from Chile
- #Torture
- #Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Relationship with prisoners
- #Solidarity
- #Collective singing
- #Farewell
- #Communication
- « Run Run... On the big pitch, mild summer weather was in the air. »
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Published on: 12 December 2014
- Music piece by:Attributed to Charles Albert Tindley
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Cárcel de Concepción / Cárcel El Manzano, December 1974
- Tags:
- « When the concentration camp that operated for nearly five months at the Regional Stadium of Concepción was closed in early February 1974, hundreds of political prisoners were transferred to the Concepción Prison, a wing of which was turned into a concentration camp. »
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Published on: 12 December 2014
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in: