Cantos Cautivos
13 results where found for «Silvio Rodríguez»
- 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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- Music piece by:Collective creation
- Testimony by:Ignacio Puelma
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisoneros Ritoque, February 1975
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- « The sound of the sea was carried over the cabins of the Ritoque Prison Camp by the wind. It was the daily music given to us as a gift by the ocean. »
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- « Our group continued to add new songs to its repertoire, including some by one
Silvio Rodríguez , then not very well known. A few days later, while I was washing in the camp bathroom, a political leader, whom I respected and still do, said to me in a solemn tone: »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Silvio Rodríguez
- Testimony by:Eduardo Andrés Arancibia Ortiz
- Experience in:Cárcel de Santiago, 1990
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- « This was one of the songs
Silvio Rodríguez sang to us the day he visited the political prisoners in Santiago’s Public Jail in 1990. »- [Read full testimony]
- 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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- « Amongst the visitors we had in the prison was
Silvio Rodríguez . He sang ‘El breve espacio en que no estás’, a very well-known song byPablo Milanés . »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Patricio Manns
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado
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- « I arrived at Tres Álamos on the eve of the departure for Mexico with a large group of prisoners. The group included Dr. Ipinza, who before leaving entrusted me with the job of physician, the medicine donated by the Red Cross, and his position in the
Council of Elders . »- [...]
- « One day she sung 'El Cautivo de Til Til', which refers to the death of Manuel Rodríguez, the most charismatic figure associated with Chile’s struggle for independence from the Spanish empire. This song was deeply significant for us, because Manuel Rodríguez is the mythical embodiment of the people's fighter, to the extent that his name was taken by the main organisation for armed struggle against the dictatorship. But for us he was also significant as the first of the arrested and disappeared at the hands of the Chilean government. »
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Recinto: Cárcel de Menores Blas Cañas / Centro de Reinserción Abierto Manuel Rodríguez- There are 2 testimonies about this detention centre.
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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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- « Cárcel de Menores Blas Cañas / Centro de Reinserción Abierto Manuel Rodríguez »
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- Music piece by:Liborio Bórquez Guzmán, popularised by Héctor Pavez
- Testimony by:Rubén Torres Ávila
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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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- « Cárcel de Menores Blas Cañas / Centro de Reinserción Abierto Manuel Rodríguez »
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- Music piece by:original by Friedrich von Schiller (lyrics) and Ludwig van Beethoven (music). Free version in Spanish by Amado Regueiro Rodríguez, aka Orbe (lyrics) y Waldo de los Ríos (music), popularised in Chile by Miguel Ríos.
- Testimony by:Amelia Negrón
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, 31 December 1975
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- « Preparations for that Wednesday night became more intense. It would be a different night. We women prisoners had secretly organised ourselves, but more importantly, we had also coordinated with the male prisoners. »
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- « Amado Regueiro Rodríguez »
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Cantata Our Great Mother (Cantata Nuestra Madre Grande) - Towards the Light (Hacia la luz)
- Music piece by:Manuel Luis Rodríguez Uribe (lyrics), Fernando Lanfranco Leverton (music), Marco Antonio Barticevic Sapunar (notation)
- Testimony by:Fernando Lanfranco Leverton
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, December 1973; Cárcel de Punta Arenas, September 1975
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- « Most of us, political prisoners from the Magallanes region, were transferred to the detention and torture camp on Dawson Island on 21 December 1973. We came from the more than twenty detention, torture and interrogation centres of the civil-military dictatorship in the Magallanes region. »
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- « Manuel Luis Rodríguez Uribe »
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- « I arrived at Tres Álamos on the eve of the departure for Mexico with a large group of prisoners. The group included Dr. Ipinza, who before leaving entrusted me with the job of physician, the medicine donated by the Red Cross, and his position in the
- « This was one of the songs