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With an invitation to the people to judge, the Víctor Jara Foundation reacted to the controversy generated by the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) when using an iconic phrase from the songs of the national singer-songwriter, assassinated in the Pinochet dictatorship, to promote the “Rejection” campaign for the October 25 Plebiscite.
“For the right to live in peace” was the slogan chosen by the unionism, taking the words of the song that was an anthem in the demonstrations in the country after October 18.
The party shared the phrase through Instagram along with a series of capsules expressing its “Rejection” position and provoked thousands of comments against it from users who accused folly for citing the prominent artist assassinated by the dictatorship in 1973.
Already at night, the foundation that watches over the legacy of the singer-songwriter issued a statement entitled “Let the people judge”, and in which they expose the historical context in which Víctor Jara wrote the work in 1971, within the framework of the Vietnam War, and the impact it has generated in all these decades, both in Chile and internationally, becoming a “world anthem for peace”.
THE PUBLIC DECLARATION
1. Víctor Jara composed this song as a form of protest against the Vietnam War driven by the invasion of that country by the world’s largest military superpower, the United States. It was a war as unjust as it was unequal, in which a small town had to defend itself against a brutal aggression. The world knew the ignominy of seeing boys and girls burned by the napalm bombs of American planes. Víctor Jara reacted against that limitless horror by crying out for peace.
2. That same song thus became a world anthem for peace. So much so that the Japanese people sing it in their language to commemorate another horror committed on behalf of humanity by the same northern country. This time the United States dropped its nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with hundreds of thousands of dead and injured for life.
3. More recently, the Chilean people came out to demand justice and dignity as of last October 18. The state’s response was a violent crackdown that left dozens dead and hundreds of eye mutilations. Faced with this situation, the song of Víctor Jara was heard again from thousands of homes, in the streets and squares of the country, demanding the right to live in peace that was denied him.
This is the legitimate sense and the real meaning with which Víctor Jara composed and sang this song known today throughout the world. Those who use it today must answer for their intentions. Let the people judge.
Public Statement:
LET THE PEOPLE JUDGE
Given the use of the phrase THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN PEACE by the UDI, making evident allusion to the song written by Víctor Jara, our foundation declares.# VictorJara #The right to live in peace pic.twitter.com/AUOVCLyUdL
– VíctorJara Foundation (@FundVictorJara) September 8, 2020
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