Pongo en tus manos abiertas ("I Put Into Your Open Hands") is the fourth studio album by Chilean singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, released in June 1969. It was the third album released by the Jota Jota record label (later known as DICAP), established by the Communist Youth to release Nueva canción chilena artist recordings such as Quilapayún, who also collaborated in the musical accompaniment of some tracks. For this album, Jara composed and sang more politicized songs than his predecessors, with some like "A Luis Emilio Recabarren" in which he praises the founder of the Communist Party of Chile or "Preguntas por Puerto Montt" in which he condemns the massacre perpetrated in that city and the interior minister Edmundo Pérez Zujovic. It has been the most praised album of his career, being considered the fifth best Chilean album by Rolling Stone magazine. Background In 1968, Jara spent more than half a year touring the United States and England, "countries where social agitation was lived to the rhythm of the most classic era of rock." In New York, he offered a recital on a hispanic television channel and in California, Jara visited the campus of the University of Berkley very close to San Francisco and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). During his performances he used a projector that allowed the audience to see the lyrics of his songs in English, and offered his "Marxist vision" of Latin American reality. In England, he was invited by the British Council to carry out activities related to theater directing. During his work in English theater productions. His 3 year old daughter Amanda fell ill and was taken to a hospital. After finding out, Jara began to send letters to his wife Joan Jara to find out the state of her daughter's health, but the post office officials in England were on strike, which made it almost impossible to know more about the news. He sat on his hotel bed, and with an "overflowing feeling of loneliness" he composed the song "Te Recuerdo Amanda". According to the University of Santiago, Chile, the names of the characters mentioned in "Te Recuerdo Amanda", Manuel and Amanda are taken from their parents and daughter. However, Joan pointed out that he "did not specifically dedicate it to either of them, although it contains the mother's smile and her daughter's promise of youth." Jara in his concert held in Peru