Víctor Jara

what functions it needed to perform.

I think significant examples go back to Chile, where Victor Jara was murdered and many other Chilean socialists were killed and tortured in the stadium that's now named after Victor Jara.

And like moving forward into kind of like the early 2000s with the war in Lebanon and how Nasrallah gave his famous, you know, the entity is weaker than a spider's web speech.

And it fucked with the minds of the IOF so much that they spent decades up until this year trying to either reclaim or bomb that stadium into smithereens, right? to just try to record a video next to it very briefly to assert falsely that they had taken it.

... as a Latina playing this music, of course, I, I always knew about, you know, the, the big references, um, Nigro Parra, Violeta Parra, you know? But-

... for me it's been more going into, like, the South American, uh, songbook, you know? Specifically, well, the Argentina rock that I've been, I, to this day say some- I feel a very big, uh, deep connection with Spinetta-

Yeah

In the 1970s, there was this movement of music throughout Latin America that emphasized local folk traditions.

They were musicians like Victor Jara

in Chile, or Carlos Puebla in Cuba, young, politically left, and searching for musical identities in indigenous and Afro-Latino traditions.

And this part of the story brings us back to why all those kids in Chinameca were proudly strumming their jaranas.

Exactly what was hoped for in that office that you talked about.

So the next morning after the coup happens, tens of thousands of Allende supporters are rounded up and moved to the national stadium, and some, like singer Victor Jara, were tortured and killed right there on the spot.

And so back to, um, Teresa.

From your per- vantage point, how did that very brutal, very sudden takeover change everyday life?

The violent side is immediately they're scooping people up off the streets.

They're taking them to the national stadium.

You mentioned Victor Jara.

Uh, they take many others.

The interesting th- part about Chilean Independence Day is it falls exactly a week after a coup d'état, which I always consider my actual 9/11.

Um, and yesterday was the 56th, uh, anniversary, uh, of the murder of Victor Jara.

So September is an interesting month.

It is also the month that my grandmother, my abuela, um, was born and died.

I think we can all resonate about what happens when our stories, our histories, um, all of our history starts to get erased because it's inconvenient, because the people in power who don't wanna remember those stories and don't wanna own up to them conveniently try and disappear it, just like they tried to conveniently disappear 3,000 Chileans and the harm that that's caused and how many people have been disappeared here.

Um, it doesn't change.

I think that the impact that somebody like Victor Jara had, uh, you have... you had, um, the prime minister or the president of Spain lifting up his voice yesterday.

So the impact of him on history and what happened to him lived on, and lived on in a way.