Venceremos

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Venceremos [ benseˈreːmɔs ] ( Spanish for "We will win") is a political battle song from Chile . The music was composed by Sergio Ortega , the text is by Claudio Iturra . Víctor Jara wrote an alternative text version that became the anthem for the 1970 election campaign of Salvador Allende's socialist Unidad Popular movement. The song quickly became so popular that it was the unofficial national anthem of Chile until the 1973 coup . After the coup it was not allowed to be played in Chile for years, but quickly found international dissemination and became an expression of solidarity with the Chilean people in many languages. It has roughly the same meaning in the Spanish-speaking world as We Shall Overcome in the English-speaking world.

Numerous artists have sung Venceremos , including Dean Reed , who was the first to sing the song in public again in Chile ten years after the coup, and Inti-Illimani . Víctor Jara is said to have thrown the song at his torturers shortly before his murder. There are several versions of the text in German, the best known by Hans Georg Albig . Franz Josef Degenhardt wrote the song Station Chile in 1974 , which quotes the refrain of Venceremos .

Die Toten Hosen play with their song title Venceremos - We will win on the album Away game on the Chilean song; it is, however, a completely independent song, lyrically and musically.

An underground station in El Salvador was called Radio Venceremos .

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  1. ↑ Since this is a Hispanic American song, the pronunciation is given in the Latin American variant .
  2. ↑ Despite the ban: miners and students sang “Venceremos” . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . September 1983. Retrieved January 10, 2009.
  3. ↑ Gabriel San Román: My song is a free song - in memory of Victor Jara . In: zmag . September 17, 2005. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zmag.de
  4. ^ Jörg Rosteck: Venceremos. Life of Víctor Jara . In: iley.de . Retrieved January 10, 2009.

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