Organization of Lollapalooza and Candelabro’s Controversy: “We Will Never Restrict an Artist’s Freedom of Expression”
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With naturalness answered Sebastián de la Barra, director of Lollapalooza Chile, and Andrés Urzúa, manager, the questions of the media, on the last day of the meeting of the O’Higgins Park. Among these, they were consulted on the presentation of the national band Candelabro, in which they exhibited images of President José Antonio Kast, the Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, the Argentine president Javier Milei, the president of the United Stat…
O’Higgins Park was the scene of a phenomenon that transcended the musical to become a deep social thermometer. Pato Cuevas, after going through the "entranas" of the event, describes an edition of Lollapalooza 2026 where the national scene claimed a space of weight, ensuring that "Chilean artists are having not only a leading role in terms of quantity in Lollapalooza, but of importance." According to the journalist and driver of La Ley del Rock,…
The Lollapalooza Chile festival, known for its festive atmosphere and musical diversity, became the scene of a political controversy when the local band Candelabro projected intervening images of different international leaders, including President Javier Milei, with a swastika on their forehead during their show at O'Higgins Park. According to the videos recorded by the public, the group performed “Ultraderecha”, an emblematic theme of the hist…
Buenos Aires, March 15 (NA) – During the Chilean band Candelabro's performance at Lollapalooza Chile 2026, an image of Argentine President Javier Milei and US President Donald Trump was projected with the swastika, the symbol of the Nazi regime, and reactions were swift. Organizations such as DAIA (Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations) condemned the “trivialization of Nazi symbolism” during the Chilean edition of the famous festival. …
Latin American Abstract, March 15, 2026. It happened during the presentation of the local group Candelabro, which played a cover of the theme “Ultraderecha”, of the Chilean group Los Prisioneros. He accompanied the song with images intervened by political questionings on giant screens. A Chilean band starred in a strong episode of political content during the festival Lollapalooza Chile by projecting on screens [...] La entrada Argentina. Lollap…
An episode with strong political burden was recorded during the last edition of Lollapalooza Chile, when a local band generated repercussions by displaying on screen images of international leaders intervened with the symbol of the swastika. The event also included the figure of the Argentine president Javier Milei. The moment occurred in the framework of the presentation of the Chilean group Candelabro, who climbed the stage mounted in the O’Hi…
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