02/03/2021 – 12:47 PM (GMT-4)
Cuban troubadour Raúl Torres, author of the song ‘Patria o Muerte por la Vida’, responded to the numerous criticisms the song has received on social networks, where it object of rejection and ridicule by internet users inside and outside the island.
“Knowing today that a theme works is seeing how it creates worm blisters. Ha ha ha ha. Hey, this is with the machete and the lights off,” the troubadour wrote on his Facebook wall.
This recent creation by Torres is used by the Cuban regime to confront the success of ‘Patria y Vida’, a pathetic and desperate effort that has become a phenomenon on YouTube, but with the opposite effect of what the promoters wanted.
“At least I didn’t stay with my arms crossed! To the machete and with the lu off!” He said in another post.
Considered by many to be the most visible voice of the Cuban government, Torres couldn’t escape using the vulgar and macho language that characterizes him on social networks.
“There aren’t that many, but they are persistent. Yet birds don’t steal feathers!” He said in another publication.
Despite the singer-songwriter’s kick, his song premiered on the official digital platform Cubadebate It has generated thousands of “dislikes”, compared to just over 1,500 likes.
The video clip, in which Torres appears together with the singers Annie Garcés, Dayana Divo, Karla Monier and Yisi Caliber, is a kind of musical pamphlet in which you can hear phrases such as: if not, you will continue / you make good money / I hope your money have / to pledge your time / because the revolution / it has more than 62 millennia left ”.
Meanwhile, the video for ‘Patria y Vida’, starring Gente de Zona, Yotuel, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, continues to receive praise from Cubans and from unequal political figures outside the island, as well as from the media. International. the press has referred to it.
With more than 2.5 million views since its premiere two weeks ago, the song has served as an encouragement to Cubans writing the song. title sentence on facades of houses and public places, amid an increase in police repression.
Days ago Descemer Bueno dedicated a verse of a song to Raúl Torres, which he called “buffoon of the dictatorship”.
“And now with Patria y Vida, it got difficult, what will Raúl Torres, buff of the dictatorship, say”, Descemer sang to his guitar.
“And now with Patria y Vida, things got tough, what am I going to say Abel Prieto, buffoon of the dictatorship,” he added, referring to the president of Casa de las Américas, one of the voices of the pro-government culture. that attacked ‘Homeland and Life’.