They Dance Alone -- Sting

Why are there women here dancing on their own?  Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here  Their faces fixed like stone? I can't see what it is that they dispise
They're dancing with the missing  They're dancing with the dead  
They dance with the invisible ones  Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers  They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands  They dance alone They dance alone

It's the only form of protest they're allowed  I've seen their silent faces scream so loud
If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too
Another woman on a torture table what else can they do
They're dancing with the missing  They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones  Their anguish is unsaid  They're dancing with their fathers   They're dancing with their sons  They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

One day we'll dance on their graves  One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy  And we'll dance  One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom  One day we'll laugh in our joy  And we'll dance

Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos  Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles  Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus pardres  Danzan con sus hijos  Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas  Danzan solas

Hey Mr. Pinochet  You've sown a bitter crop  It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop  No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns  Can you think of your own mother  Dancin' with her invisible son
They're dancing with the missing  They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones  They're anguish is unsaid 
They're dancing with their fathers  They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands   They dance alone 

Sting wrote this after he saw a brief news story about women dancing in the streets of Chile torn apart by the Pinochet regime. The women were dancing in the streets with pictures of their husbands, fathers, brothers or sons pinned to their clothes or they were holding the pictures and dancing with them.                                                                (songfacts)

   
       Pinochet saluting his troops.  

Augusto Pinochet  (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was aChilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on  September 1973. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of theGovernment Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981 and President of the Republic  until transferring power to a democratically elected president in 1990.

 From the beginning, the government implemented harsh measures against its political opponents. According to various reports and investigations 1,200–3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 were interned, and up to 30,000 were tortured by his regime including women and children.

when he retired and became a senator-for-life in accordance with the 1980 Constitution. In 2004, Chilean Judge Juan Guzmán Tapia ruled that Pinochet was medically fit to stand trial and placed him under house arrest. 

 Pinochet was accused of having corruptlyamassed a wealth of US$28 million or more.                                                                                        (wikipedia)