El pueblo unido jamás será vencido

El pueblo unido (Spanish for " The united people" ) is one of the most famous songs from the neo- folk movement (Nueva Canción Chilena '), which was composed in the last year the government of Salvador Allende.

After the coup in 1973 that overthrew the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, the song became a symbol of resistance against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet was.

The music written by the Chilean composer Sergio Ortega, who went into exile in France after the 1973 military coup. The text wrote the Chilean group Quilapayún. The chorus is also the core message:

" El Pueblo unido, jamás será vencido »

" The people united will never be defeated "

With El pueblo unido especially the socialist left connects the freedom struggle of the Chilean people, who fought on behalf of the other oppressed peoples in their opinion. Thus, it has a similar significance, such as the International as a song of freedom, for many on the left.

Others

In 1975, the American composer Frederic Rzewski the piano work The People United Will Never Be Defeated, which consists of 36 variations on the fight song.