| Estadio Chile | |
|---|---|
| by Víctor Jara | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Cancha_Estadio_Victor_Jara.JPG) The eponymous stadium, where Jara wrote the poem and died | |
| Translator | Joan Jara |
| Written | 1973 |
| Language | Spanish |
There are five thousand of us here
in this small part of the city.
We are five thousand.
I wonder how many we are in all
in the cities and in the whole country?
...
How hard it is to sing
when I must sing of horror.
Horror which I am living,
horror which I am dying.
To see myself among so much
and so many moments of infinity
in which silence and screams
are the end of my song.
Víctor Jara, "Estadio Chile"
(translated from Spanish)[1]
"Estadio Chile", or "Somos Cinco Mil", is the common name of an untitled poem and song credited to Víctor Jara and penned in the days prior to his death. Jara was tortured and killed by the Chilean Army over several days in Santiago's Estadio Chile (renamed Estadio Víctor Jara in 2004) during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.