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- Music piece by:poem by Francisco Pezoa Astudillo set to music by Quilapayún
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, February 1975
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- « The first song that we managed to sing was Quilapayún's setting of the poem Canto a la Pampa (Song to the Pampa), by the anarchist poet Francisco Pezoa Astudillo, which recounts one of the bloodiest episodes of the class struggle in Chile: the massacre of the Santa María school in Iquique in December 1907. »
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Published on: 02 July 2023
- Music piece by:Georgie Dann
- Testimony by:César Montiel
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « I have a story about 'El bimbó', a song that shaped us in those difficult moments in Colonia Dignidad. It was a song with a tropical rhythm that was very trendy in the 1970s. It was played every day on the radio. Also on Eurovision, in European festivals, and on the TV programme
300 Million . »- [Read full testimony]
Published on: 03 July 2022
- Music piece by:Liborio Bórquez Guzmán, popularised by Héctor Pavez
- Testimony by:Rubén Torres Ávila
- Experience in:
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- « When I was in the last year of secondary school at the Liceo 8 in Santiago, I suggested to a teacher to do an interview with a prisoner of the youth detention centre Blas Cañas. After the interview, I offered the prison’s governor to take the school’s folk group to present a show to the inmates. »
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Published on: 18 June 2022
- Music piece by:Julio Iglesias
- Testimony by:Carmen Espinoza Alegría
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
- Tags:
- Carmen Espinoza Alegría
- Julio Iglesias
- Maule Region
- Colonia Dignidad
- A flor de piel
- Under my Skin
- #Music piece from Spain
- #Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Communication
- #Description of prison life
- #Music as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Female narrator
- #Relationship with agents
- #Listening to music
- #Torture
- #Mood
- « I’m from Talca. I met César, my comrade, my love, in 1971 or 1972, approximately. We were young idealists, we were members of Juventudes Comunistas, and were student leaders in our secondary schools. »
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Published on: 18 June 2022
- Music piece by:Julio Iglesias
- Testimony by:César Montiel
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
- Tags:
- César Montiel
- Julio Iglesias
- Maule Region
- Colonia Dignidad
- A flor de piel
- Under my Skin
- #Relationship with agents
- #Listening to music
- #Torture
- #Mood
- #Music piece from Spain
- #Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Music as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Communication
- #Description of prison life
- #Male narrator
- « At the beginning of the 1970s, I met Carmen, my comrade, my love, at the Juventudes Comunistas of Talca. We had the life of young idealists, sharing our everyday, living this revolutionary process so beautifully. »
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Published on: 18 June 2022
- Music piece by:Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski
- Testimony by:César Montiel
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « In Colonia Dignidad, they played Swan Lake by
Tchaikovsky a lot. It was very repetitive. To several comrades, it reminds them of torture. It is not very enjoyable for us to listen to this piece at this life stage, because it transports us back to all the suffering, to what they did to us. »- [Read full testimony]
Published on: 18 June 2022
- Music piece by:Luis Mella Toro
- Testimony by:César Montiel
- Experience in:
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- « The Navy sailors made us sing every day, when we got up very early to raise the flag. We, as the squaddies, had to sing military songs, their songs. »
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Published on: 18 June 2022
- Music piece by:Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski
- Testimony by:Carmen Espinoza Alegría
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « When we arrived at Colonia Dignidad, they threw us into a shed. I despaired, took off my hood and a guard gave me a slap so hard that I fell to the ground. This was my arrival at the Colonia. »
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Published on: 18 June 2022
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado Vidal
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - October 1975
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- « During the last third of the 20th century, the concentration camps of the Chilean dictatorship were characterised by a high grade of organisation among prisoners, as well as the overflowing creativity they applied to all areas of human ingenuity. »
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Published on: 26 April 2020
- Music piece by:Hans Leip
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado Vidal
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - Octobre 1975
- « In Colonia Dignidad, they played Swan Lake by
- « I have a story about 'El bimbó', a song that shaped us in those difficult moments in Colonia Dignidad. It was a song with a tropical rhythm that was very trendy in the 1970s. It was played every day on the radio. Also on Eurovision, in European festivals, and on the TV programme