(CNN Español) – A lema revolutionary written, a critical song and an inconvenient video that went viral. The song by various Cuban artists “Patria y vida” has become so relevant that a national and international discussion is taking place in which, among others, Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba, is involved.
«No more mentions, my pueblo pide libertad, no más doctrinas / Ya no gritemos Patria y Muerte sino Patria y Vida», dice el theme of Yotuel Romero, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo y El Funky, cuyo video en YouTube , launched on February 16, has a total of 1.4 million views. It is a critique of the governing communist of Iceland and proposes a change in the theme of “Patria o muerte” which is attributed to Fidel Castro, a conspiracy of the Cuban Revolution.
The video begins with a ticket by José Martí that will be sent to reveal a dollar (“What celebrities are the people taking the prize from Che Guevara and Martí for the division?”, Dice la canción). It is also a Cuba border and has images of protests and representation of the authorities. “Advertising of a paradise in Varadero / Mientras las madres lloran por sus hijos que fueron”, continues the letter.
The song is supported by the San Isidro Movement, a group of artists who recently passed away in Cuba following the arrest of one of their members, the musician Denis Solís, and has denounced the censorship. “Our door will be broken, our temple will be violated / And the world will know that the continuous movement of San Isidro will continue,”.
“Sentena años trancado el domino / Bombo y platillo a los quinientos de la Habana / Mientras en casa en las kazuelas ya no tienen jama” dobbeltsteen la canción, un rechazo a la scasez de alimentos ya la situacion de lotos cubanos en mido de las celebraes for the quinto centenary of the capital since 2019, as it continues in the midst of the emergence of the covid-19 and of the recent reports of losses and disappearances of balsas that follow in the footsteps of EE.UU.
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The reaction of the Governor of Cuba
The official response was announced on February 18 in the run-up to President Díaz-Canel’s death, as part of Silvio Rodríguez’s “Pequeña serenata diurna” song: “Asi sings a la Patria / Vivo en un pais libre”.
Asia can be found on the Patria:
Living in a free country
Only you can be free
In this world, in this instant
Ye are happy because they are giants
……….
I’m happy, I’m a happy man
And I want to forgive
For this day
The deaths of my congratulations.# CubaViva #SomosCuba pic.twitter.com/FY4OzYxGjh– Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) 18 February 2021
This same day, Pedro de la Hoz, jefe de la pagina cultural de Granma, published the article “Cantar la Patria, no contra ella”. De Hoz says that “he does not have the least amount of engineering knowledge, nor a piece of intelligence in the burdens of the Latter-day Saints, in Patria and Vida, the title of the diatriba”.
The periodical Granma State reported the reaction of the Association of Musicians of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac). “With indescribable repugnance, we have invaded social speeches, with the power of the intentions of musicalized discourses, in the alleged intention to burn public opinion the image of an artistic movement in opposition to the virile posture of the Revolution” dijo la Uneac. Granma signals that his “actions to destabilize this nation of Antilles” and says that it is “a song of abortion discourse antiquated”. The title of the article: “It’s useless to use your votes to increase mercenary popularity”.
Díaz-Canel flew to tweet on February 19: «#PatriaOMuerte! gritamos myl anoche, with the applause of the 9 y the hymn of Perucho Figueredo. Quisieron borrar nuestra consigna y #Cuba la viralizó en las redes ».
#PatriaOMuerte! gritamos myl anoche, with the applause of the 9 y the hymn of Perucho Figueredo. Quisieron drills our consignment and # Cuba the viralized in the speeches. # CubaViva #SomosCuba #SomosContinuidad pic.twitter.com/xPMK0wLbWl
– Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) 19 February 2021
Granma’s portada is this day with an article entitled “A la Patria se le kanta di el purazón puro” que dice que «huele a azufre el« arte »que nace a merced de la voluntead de quienes heidense –a toda costa ya todo costo– to intend to err, from the most burdensome political insurgency, in the sovereignty of a nation ». One day the diary was reproduced in a fragment of a speech by the failed leader Fidel Castro: “Our disintegration will always be death”.
Artists say to help their families in Cuba
Gona de Zona, an international fame duo for their collaborations with artists such as Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias and Becky G, the day at Efe in the premiere of Premio Lo Nuestro in Miami on February 19 that takes place for his families in Cuba theme launch. “Toca tener mi opinión, dar un paso adelante, correr el riesgo y determinar culpables —si le pas algo a mi familia— al gobierno de Cuba”, dijo Alexander Delgado, uno de los miembros. «¿Miedo? Miedo a no poder volver a darle música a ese pueblo que lo necesita », puntualizó su companion Randy Malcom. On Instagram, there are not 1.9 millones de seguidores, and the historical history of the fans celebrating the letra de la canción. “Who does not know the song, to want to think differently / Who knows that Cuba is my city and my city is all my people”, said part of the song resulted in various users.
It is not the first time that Gente de Zona has manifested itself against the Cuban governing body. In the Free Cuba Fest de Miami in October 2020 Delgado grit from the screenplay “Liberty for Cuba” and “below the dictatorship”, will record the cameras that cover the event. This demonstration was seen by the Cuban exile as a form of re-indication when the duo took place in the middle of a controversy in 2019, when Miami franchise Francis Suárez criticized the critics for — even the one presenting at a joint concert of Raúl Castro and a reviewer in Díaz-Canel. Suárez will be presiding over that Gente de Zona will not be present in the Florida City this year. In October 2020 the songs will be sung at the Univisión on this concierge that “we can avoid in Cuba that the leader of a conductor is put on the stage” and that these situations the pony in “a cross, be between the spade and the pared ”.
Support message
Opposition activist Rosa María Payá, wife of the bankrupt Oswaldo Payá, shared in on Twitter account various publications with the label #PatriayVida, retrieved the video of the song published by Yotuel y this is Saturday: “All that hizo @ Yotuel007 invited invitees to meet at the solariums of #Cuba And the regime of 60 emancipation propaganda” and show them how they are: racists and auditors. #DictaduraRacista # SeAcabó #PatriaYVida ».
José Daniel Ferrer, activist and coordinator of Unión Patriótica de Cuba, compartió imagens de jóvenes with messages from “Patria y vida”.
Dita Charanzova, Vice-President of the European Parliament, also shared the video and written: “For all the world is the consciousness of the Cuban reality”.