Piedra Roja (festival)

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Piedra Roja was a rock music festival held in Chile from October 10 to 12, 1970, in the eastern part of Santiago. It reflected the hippie counterculture of South America and followed the example of Woodstock. Performers included Aguaturbia, Los Blops, Lágrima Seca, and Los Jaivas. Like Woodstock, the festival experienced chaos, with sound problems, drug use, and delinquency. The event showed that Chilean youth were becoming a significant social force and reflected rising tensions that would culminate in the 1973 coup d'état. It was organized by Jorge Gómez Ainslie. The festival is discussed in Psychedelic Chile: youth, counterculture, and politics on the road to socialism and dictatorship, and Gómez Ainslie was later interviewed for the Duolingo Spanish Podcast.