Colette Johnston

Great to find your page. As a teenager, I visited a family of Chilean refugees near Balloch back in 1976 and have fond memories of that time. I admired them for their great courage.

Ronan Ogilvy

Thank you very much for creating this wonderful resource, Carlos. I am from Scotland but recently lived for some months in Barrio Yungay in Santiago, very close to where you grew up, where I witnessed the uprisings against the Piñera government and neoliberalism. The Chilean people are incredible in their strength and defiance, and they were extremely welcoming towards me.

Since I sadly had to leave Chile in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, I've been delighted to find your website. It's brought me a lot of pleasure to listen to your music and poetry and to learn more about Chilean exiles in Scotland, and I really appreciate your effort in creating this resource. Your work is really fantastic and it's great to think that we have our own wee chapter of the Nueva Canción movement here in Scotland. I'll be sure to share the website with friends both here and in Chile.

Un abrazo!

nelson ruiz

te he leído en you tube a propósito de corazón de escarcha y me sorprendí verte en tu canal ...muy bueno, y sigo con dos dudas...si eres de Santiago? y por qué el desconocimiento de la palabra ESCARCHA?

Tomas Pizarro-Escuti

Dear Carlos,

As a history student, I must thank you for your immeasurable work in the service of the collective social memory of Chile. You have left a great legacy for future generations. Your work is truly amazing; it's a history of pain, resilience, hope and solidarity.

On behalf of the students of the University of Aberdeen, I thank you.

All the best.

Zara Hayes

Carlos,

Thank you so much for keeping this comprehensive and fascinating website, for bringing together these memories, keeping them alive and providing a forum for people, like me, who are interested in finding out more and helping to tell these stories.

My best regards,
Zara Hayes

Fernando Espinoza Espinoza

Un gran abrazo. Necesito si usted pudiera ponerme en contacto con Alberto. Desde Cuba, donde resido actualmente es difícil acceder a las páginas donde aparece su nombre. Quisiera relacionar con él información sobre otros cros desaparecidos quienes pudieran haber estado en contacto con su familia. Por favor ayudeme en esto.
Respondame a este correo para que pueda darle más antecedentes.
Gracias

Sergio Pérez

Estimado, le escribo desde Chile me. Colecciono cds y cassetes de Inti illlimani. Me interesa conseguir el afiche de Inti illlimani return of the cóndor. Lo vende? Existió el cd? Le envié un correo. Saludos y muchas gracias

Jack Johnston

Thank you Carlos.
This website was not just a springboard to my interest of Chilean exiles in the UK, but an extremely valuable resource in what became my undergraduate dissertation. I believe without it my arguments would have fallen short.
From Carlos' own personal histories related to performing music and poetry, to the wider efforts of Chilean and British people alike to stop the Pinochet regime are brilliant. The effort gone into detailing the different initiatives with original pamphlets documents and testimonials is outstanding, and radiate Carlos' passion around the subject. It is a kind reminder of how international compassion can help others, and solidarity even from a distance is never a useless effort.
Thank you for all the help and providing an important resource in memory of Chile.
Saludos

Lucy Chislett

Hola Carlos! Encontré tu historia fascinante y me encantaría entrevistarte si es posible (estoy en Glasgow también!) Saludos!

Eduardo Godoy

Hola Carlos!Soy Lalo hijo de Eduardo Godoy Castillo y Sonia Gonzalez Leiva. Coincidimos en sunny Glasgow.Ahora la familia vive en Madrid.Ver las fotos me ha traido bellos recuerdos de nuestra vidas aquel entonces.Un abrazo.

Javiera Toro

Today I was able to make a great presentation thanks to Carlos. He gave me a while ago some of his time to answer some of my questions about exile here in Scotland, as well as recommending me his website which gave me a lot of insight, and enhanced my research and made my presentation a success! As a young person that did not know much about exile and what happened during the dictatorship, I found the information he gave me fascinating. Thank you so much for all the help that you have given me!!

MatthewLotly

Awesome! This can be by far the most useful thing on the matter I've ever found. Thank you for your effort.

hernán Fernandez

Me encantó este sitio. Gracias por compartir tus escritos y canciones. Te felicito por el gran trabajo de memoria realizado tan lejos de Chile. Compartí este sitio tu sitio en mi página, merece ser conocido. Nano

Morgan Szymanski

Gracias! Many thanks to Carlos Arredondo for sharing his art and his heart at our Día de los Muertos concert at Queens Hall in Edinburgh. Also, many thanks for donating his fee to P.R.I.S.M.A, an organization in Mexico which takes the arts to rural schools where children do not normally have acces to them. Such a generous action that will serve to help others. The children will be delighted. Gracias amigo!

Marylyn

Hurrah! After all I got a web site from where I be able
to truly get useful information regarding my study
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JON BUSBY

Carlos Arredondo has been a life-long and very valued friend to the Welcoming Association since it began in 2000. He has been a great supporter of the work of the organisation and has been a guest at many of our social and cultural events to help us raise awareness of the plight and struggle of refugees from all over the World and especially the great contribution that they can make to Scotland. His poetry and his songs are powerful and passionate calls for hope, peace, compassion, solidarity and understanding that urge and rally communities too unite and work together to accept newcomers. We thank Carlos for his great songs and poetry rradings that he performed at our recent New Scots Celebration in November of this year and hope to work with him again in 2018.

Roberto astudillo

Hi Carlos

I am Roberto, the son of victor astudillo who recently passed away. A message was sent from you to his Facebook but I had lost as don't know password for fathers account. Is there anyway you could send to me at my email as it was a lovely message. Kind regards roberto astudillo

Adriana Goni Godoy

Saludos Carlos!,Te ruego me contactes para hacerte una entrevista on Line acerca de tu historia de vida en la tarea de la construcción de la memoria de la diaspora política chilena.

Carlos arredondo

Hello and thank you! The refugees you are talking about were not from Peru but from Chile. There were a few refugees living in Balloch by 1974. I remember it well because I used to visit a family there to do some music. These families left for London for what I know. Thanks to all the people of Balloch for the comprehension and solidarity with the people of Chile.

Jim Hutton

Just a hello from someone from Balloch who can rememer the Perubian refugees coming to our village in 1974. I was only a wee boy of fourteen at the time.

Hraste Ivan

excelente Carlos, me alegro por ti y los tuyos, nunca he olvidado y tu musica me acompaña hasta hoy, fraternalmente Ivan y Marta.

nano

Queé sorpresa encontrar tu sitio. Cuanto me alegra saber, el gran aporte cultural realizado por tí por esos lados.
Un gran abrazo, Nano

ivan gutierrez

Carlos!!!! Como estas? Agregame a facebook para hablar te dejo mi celular +56991717111 saludos ddsdd chile espero te encuentres bien amigo

Anneliese

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Clay

You can definitely see your enthusiasm in the work you write. The sector hopes for more passionate writers such as you who aren't afraid to mention how they believe. At all times follow your heart.