El pueblo unido

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El pueblo unido ( Spanish for the united people ) is one of the most famous songs from the neo-folklore movement (called Nueva Canción Chilena ), which was composed during the last year of the Salvador Allende government .

After the coup in Chile in 1973 , in which the military overthrew the democratically elected, socialist president Salvador Allende, the song became a symbol of resistance against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet .

The music was written by the Chilean composer Sergio Ortega , who went into exile in France after the 1973 military coup. The text was written by the Chilean group Quilapayún , which was on a European tour in France on the day of the coup and could not return; its members lived in exile until 1988.

The refrain is also the key message:

"El Pueblo unido, jamás será vencido"

"The united people will never be defeated"

With El pueblo unido , the socialist left in particular connects the freedom struggle of the Chilean people, who, in their opinion, fought on behalf of the other oppressed peoples. As a freedom song, it is as important as the International, for example, for many leftists .

Others

In 1975 the American composer Frederic Rzewski wrote the one-hour piano work The People United Will Never Be Defeated! , which consists of 36 variations on the battle song. The German songwriter Hannes Wader wrote a German version in 1977 that retained the Spanish refrain. The Italian jazz pianist Giovanni Mirabassi created a melancholy improvisation in 2000.

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  1. ↑ a b Reiner Wandler, Kay Meiners: The song of the left Chile: El Pueblo Unido. In: Magazine Mitbestbildung. Hans Böckler Foundation , accessed on June 19, 2016 .