A Poem, a Prison in the Dictatorship and 40 Years of Memory: the Story that Brought Two Political Prisoners Back Together

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The story of a poem can also be the story of an era. In Concordia, the alpine houses of the Pancho Ramírez neighborhood remained as testimony of an experience of solidarity and militancy that the dictatorship tried to destroy. But there is another story that goes through those years: that of José “Maca” Godoy, who during his prison in Coronda found a poem, memorized it and took it with him for decades, without knowing who had written it. Forty y…