A chill went down the spine of democrats around the world. September 11, 1973 When is the military coup? Pinochet He overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende.
This giddiness was revived this Saturday morning. america house Allende’s voice is in his final moments, when the army has already captured the La Moneda building and the hero a democratic experience with no future. Former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero used to say that it was a coup d’etat promoted from outside.
In that speech again heard at the Casa de América, allende Talk about the future when freedom returns. This call to the time when men will go to freedom again big streetsHe then reviewed all the speeches that highlighted that date. In a few months the anniversary will take place. Madrid was the world leader of the moment.
The current president, Gabriel Boric, was the keynote speaker, of which Joan Manuel Serrat was the guest of honor. The Chilean leader wanted to interview him in front of an audience of politicians like Rodríguez Zapatero, Latin American ambassadors, Spanish and Chilean ministers, and large numbers of citizens of Allende and Boric. Everyone heard this memory on September 11, 1973, as if a broken mirror suddenly reproduced the emotions filled with tears forever.
In this context, he invited Boric to the podium. Gioconda BelliNicaraguan writer stripped of his nationality by the dictator daniel ortega. He recalled Allende’s posthumous speech in front of the crowd, which included another victim of retaliation, the novelist Sergio Ramírez, who was exiled as Belli in Spain. victor jara already Serrat. A Chilean duo, Emilia and Pablo, gave the music a taste that remains the main flavor of all the artists mentioned.
Everything happened under the same symbolic glasses that Allende used until he focused on the interviewer and the interviewer. Boric and Serrat… The president told me that as a child he recorded a children’s story on a song by the Catalan artist. His father, who took care of Serrat like his son, never forgave him. Then he asked me to talk about me in the interview. purple vineuntil the memory of Allende, the mother of folklore that traveled the world before and after she was killed.
Serrat didn’t know him, but he never stopped listening to him because he created the folklore that Víctor Jara, Quilapayún or Inti Ilimani would call their own. He did not know Víctor Jara when he was there for the first and last time before the coup, but as he was a virtuoso of all arts, he soon learned of him and, like everyone else, was stunned by his murder. years later, after different bans, at Stadium Nacional Pinochet timesSerrat was able to act in 1990.
There was great joy on the first of these trips, when he went to sing. Vina del Mar Festival. Pablo Neruda invited him to share his meals and memories at his home on Isla Negra. “And the chat. We’re talking about over there miguel hernandezHe showed me his collection of seashells one wonderful afternoon”. Later, from afar, he learned of the various threats to the Allende government. fascist attacksuntil the coup that I “never thought could happen”.
HE September 11, 1973 He brought the coup, “and I met him,” said Serrat, “while recording in Madrid. As soon as the news of the print came in, it struck me as a bombshell in a very tragic way.
This deadly event in Chilean history has made it central to what will become its democratic commitment. “That coup determines the rules of the game for everyone, and for me too. I was a popular singer, I said that I wrote, I did not take certain paths, but in my perspective on life, the coup accelerates everything”. Serrat, whom we know, was born there from that dramatic moment in Chile.
Boric wanted to know if you had met. purple vine, the only Chilean on display at the Louvre (“arpilleras,” he pointed). NO, Serrat did not know him., but he knew how much he left his mark on the music of so many, and of course Víctor Jara. “Serrat, do you believe music can change the world?” Serrat says, “Like all cultures it makes us better because we depend on the environment; it also makes us better collectively because it’s a way we have to respect ourselves, just as other values shake this world and so does the politics that governs who we are.. But,” added the poet, “let’s not go now to glorify class politics, but that’s where it goes.” jokingly To his Chilean interviewer. The public rewarded the joke with applause, which will appear more often in Boric’s interview with him.
Finally, after the interviewer remembered that she was singing Joaquin Sabina Chilean scale Two birds with one stonethe author Mediterrenian And Lucy (who sang ismail serrano), said to him (and the public) when Boric awarded him on behalf of Chile: “I want to thank life, as I will say purple vinefor allowing me to fulfill some of my dreams and giving me the illusion that someday the unfulfilled are the hope of becoming reality. as he said shoemakerI don’t throw a towel either because the towel is mine,” he said.
balthazar garzonThe judge who oversaw the extradition of the dictator, who bled the blood of Chile’s democratic history, was engaged to the other by President Boric. This america houseLike Allende’s glasses, it slowly faded from the audience, but the emotion remained intact as September 11 continued to soar above the history-filled space tainted with bewilderment in Chile at the time.