20/02/2021 – 12:19 PM (GMT-4)
Cuban singer-songwriter Descemer Bueno dedicated some lyrics to the troubadour Raúl Torres, one of the spokesmen the regime has been most to him.
It is strange to Descemer that, in light of the controversy created by the recent song “Patria y Vida”, Torres did not come up with another song in support of the government to counter.
“And now with Patria y Vida, things got tough, what will Raúl Torres, buff of the dictatorship, say,” says a verse of the song played by Descemer on guitar and shared on his social networks.
“And now with Patria y Vida, it got tough, what am I going to say Abel Prieto, buffoon of the dictatorship,” he adds.
The troubadour Raúl Torres, also called “the necrotrovador”, is known for dedicate songs to Fidel Castro or Hugo Chávez.
“I know very well where you are / They’ll tell me, they’ll tell me it’s crazy / Everything I sing / That I’m necrotroving / They’ll invent tricks against my songs / Fools don’t see the sun / No, they see it doesn’t, ”one of Raúl Torres’s problems told Fidel Castro.
The troubadour has also been a source of controversy for his statements in support of Castroism: “I defend the revolution because despite our mistakes, it has never failed me or our Cuban people. Nothing … I still dance the boardwalk up against the blockade, my people, ”he once said.
Released by Yotuel, Maykel Osorbo, Gente de Zona, El Funky and Descemer Bueno, the song “Patria y Vida” was viewed more than a million times on YouTube in less than 72 hours.
The song, which promises to be a hymn of freedom for Cubans, is not a minor dissatisfaction with the island’s government.
Yesterday the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba issued a statement against the theme and its musicians, saying that “the Cuban people vigorously reject them, convinced that the empire that today applauds them and throws its coins, like Rome, pays for traitors, but despises them.”
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