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Las mañanitas

Music piece by:

Manuel M. Ponce

Testimony by:

Beatriz Bataszew Contreras

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, December 1974 - May 1976

Tags:

• Beatriz Bataszew Contreras
• Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos
• Metropolitana
• Las mañanitas

« To every comrade who had a birthday, we would sing 'Las mañanitas' and we would give them presents. The majority of the female prisoners would come together and sing to you. I spent one birthday in prison. Birthdays were important for everyone because we were alive. Because you have a birthday when you’re alive. »

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Candombe for José (Candombe para José)

Music piece by:

Roberto Ternán

Testimony by:

Amelia Negrón

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, June 1976

Tags:

• Amelia Negrón
• Candombe for José
• Candombe para José
• Metropolitana Region
• Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos
• Roberto Ternán

« We were in Pavilion 1. One of us came up with the idea, I can’t remember who. There were so many of us and we spent the day inventing and creating things! »

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« Then began the difficult topic of the teams’ names. So the White Doves (‘Las Palomas Blancas’), the Innocent Doves (‘Las Inocentes Palomas’), the ‘Cucurrucucú Doves' (‘Las Cucurrucucú Paloma’), and some more similar ones. »

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The Dead Man Won't Be Pinned on Me (Ese muerto no lo cargo yo)

Music piece by:

Graciela Arango de Tobón, popularised in Chile by Giolito y su Combo, and by Los Vikings 5

Testimony by:

Joaquín Real Hermosilla

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Las Bandurrias, actual Regimiento Bulnes, Coyhaique, September 1973

Tags:

• Joaquín Real Hermosilla
• Campamento de Prisioneros Las Bandurrias, actual Regimiento Bulnes, Coyhaique
• Aysén Region
• The Dead Man Won't Be Pinned on Me
• Ese muerto no lo cargo yo
• Graciela Arango de Tobón

« From that troubled time, I would like to remember an activity that kept us active during the harsh confinement in Las Bandurrias. It is about music, an artistic expression that revealed the talent of several political prisoners and allowed us to endure the confinement for almost six months. »

[...]

« They found Don Goyo
dead in Las Bandurrias
many years tired him out
they found him very early
that he was killed out of jealousy
that's what they told me
I wasn’t in Las Bandurrias
when Don Goyo died. »

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