Speech by Marcelo Concha Bascuñán

Music piece by:
Marcelo Concha Bascuñán
Testimony by:
Luis Cifuentes Seves
Experience in:
Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January-February 1974

This speech is the fourth track on the cassette recorded at Camp Chacabuco by the group Los de Chacabuco, created by Ángel Parra and directed by him until his release from prison. The unique value of this speech lies in the fact that our dear Marcelo was the only member of Los de Chacabuco who after being released was imprisoned again, and has been disappeared to this day. Marcelo had been a swimming champion and an outstanding guitarist and singer. The memory of his bonhomie, charm and enthusiasm remains with us.

Transcription of the speech:

"The group Chacabuco salutes its director and creator, Ángel Parra, to whom we owe the fact that we have been able to perform the songs that feature on this tape. They are yet another manifestation of the multiple activities - artistic, intellectual, manual, cultural and productive - which have been taking place here at Chacabuco camp. These songs are also a reflection of love towards the people who are waiting for us, and, in general, to all of those who have shown their solidarity, their concern and their support towards everyone who is in our situation. It is, therefore, a manifestation of hope, of trust, of faith, in sum: of love for life - which is love for freedom."

Victims remembered in this testimony:

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Published on: 11 November 2015


(Recording made by political prisoners in Chacabuco in 1974)

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