The Struggle Continues

One of Jara's fellow prisoners wrote: 'We were very conscious of the hatred that the reactionary forces had against Victor. Because of the personal attacks made in papers, because of gestures made in the street, because of all sorts of things. The worst thing that could happen to an artist or a singer at such a moment, he said, would be to stop risking one's life, to draw back—so he went on and on. It was That in Chile, to know that you were risking your life, because you felt what was there in the darkness.'