In the winter of 1972 a friend of mine visited Chile and brought me back a number of books and lps, one of which was Victor Jara's album "Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas..." (on the Jota label). It got badly warped somehow and the first track on each side is unplayable, at least by me. But it is still a treasured posession. A Luis Emilio Recabarren A Desalumbrar Duerme Duerme Negrito Juan Sin Tierra Preguntas por Puerto Montt "Movil" Oil Special Camilo Torres El Martillo Te Recuerdo Amanda Zamba del Che Ya Parte el Galgo Terrible A Cochabamba Me Voy All beautiful songs. Puerto Montt was the site of a massacre of workers by police BEFORE Pinochet. Camilo Torres was a Colombian priest who joined the guerrilla in 1965 and was killed in 1966. Cochabamba was where Chr Guevara was captured and killed.
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