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“They have been months with many emotions, fear, uncertainty, anguish are just some of them. Because we want Chile, we want a country for everyone. A Chile where there are no fears. For not feeling more fear in our country, that’s why #YoVotoRechazo ”.
With that phrase, in the middle of its campaign for the Rejection of a New Constitution, the UDI posted on its social networks a video alluding to “The right to live in Peace”, an emblematic line of one of the most popular songs by Víctor Jara .
The publication, made last Thursday, unleashed criticism on social networks this Monday, which began to spread also at the political level.
One of the first to do so was the communist deputy Camila vallejo. “The UDI is miserable. Víctor Jara and the right to live in peace were killed by the dictatorship and the same UDI that actively participated in it. 44 shots and 56 fractures. So that never again in Chile, for Víctor, for the true right to live in peace, I #Approve, ”he said via Twitter.
The UDI is miserable. Víctor Jara and the right to live in peace were killed by the dictatorship and the same UDI that actively participated in it. 44 shots and 56 fractures. So that never again in Chile, for Víctor, for the true right to live in peace, I #Approve pic.twitter.com/C4KopgnZQi
– Camila Vallejo Dowling #APRUEBO (@camila_vallejo) September 7, 2020
For her part, the socialist parliamentarian, Daniella Cicardini, pointed in the same direction: “I thought that @udipopular could not fall lower and they surprise you with this. The legacy and the fight of # VíctorJara is denied in fact by a large part of the right and now they seek to appropriate his words. An insult to his memory and to all of us who admire his history ”.
The president of the PS, Senator Álvaro Elizalde, also criticized the campaign and stressed that “they use the name of a song by a victim of the dictatorship to defend the Constitution that was imposed by force during the dictatorship. An action of this nature constitutes an offense to the memory of the victims of human rights violations in our country ”.
“I wish the UDI had liked Victor Jara so much when they tortured and murdered him in the Chile Stadium”, for his part, assured the parliamentarian Marcelo Díaz, president of the Culture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
The socialist deputy Maya Fernández, Salvador Allende’s granddaughter, also joined the wave of criticism. “How much disrespect for the memory of Víctor Jara, cruelly assassinated by the same military dictatorship that the UDI defends to this day”he wrote on social media.
However, the criticism has not focused only on the aforementioned post, since it has also pointed to another message shared through social networks and by radio, which indirectly alludes to the Broad Front: “I am intelligent, I am broad-minded. That is why I vote Reject ”.
Faced with the controversy, the Secretary General of the UDI, Felipe Salaberry, came out to defend the unionism campaign: “It is unusual for someone or a sector to feel upset by a phrase that reflects a deep desire of Chileans, what more inclusive, what more hopeful to speak of our right to live in peace in Chile?”
After the heated debate on networks, during the day the concepts “Víctor Jara” and “The right to live in peace” have become some of the most published on Twitter.
The right to live in peace had an unusual resurgence last October, when it became one of the most listened to songs during the demonstrations of the “social outbreak”.
Its new popularity was such that the song and the disc that contains it (La population) were released for free download from the Víctor Jara Foundation, at the same time that new versions of it emerged.
One of the most successful brought together a dozen Chilean musicians around the theme. Roberto Márquez (Illapu), Francisca Valenzuela, Cami, Gepe, Camila Moreno, La Moral Distraída, Fernando Milagros, Mon Laferte and Denisse Malebrán, among others, participated in the tribute.
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