09/03/2021 – 5:41 PM (GMT-4)
Alexander Delgado, member of the reggaeton duo People of the Zone sang the popular song this Monday Homeland and Life at the Sala’o restaurant-bar, on Calle Ocho in Miami, where the audience cheerfully sang the song that has become a banner in recent weeks of those asking for freedom in Cuba.
Together with the artists Yotuel Romero, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, the duo of Randy Malcom and Alexander perform the song that asks to replace the slogan “Patria o Muerte” launched by the late dictator Fidel Castro in 1960. . by the phrase “Homeland and Life”.
The moment when Alexander sang in the Sala’o restaurant bar was shared by the artist himself on his Instagram stories.
On YouTube, where the video for the song was released in mid-February, the work has been viewed more than 3.3 million times and found more than 190,000 ‘likes’ to date, demonstrating its rapid popularity.
The song’s title has also served to name initiatives such as the caravan who paraded down Calle Ocho on Saturday to show their support and solidarity among all Cubans who are committed to change the political system in Cuba.
It has also inspired other actions on and off the island. On Monday, the sentence appeared on the facade of the Consulate General of Cuba in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SpainMany Cubans have labeled facades, walls in public spaces and their own bodies with those words, while Cuban authorities have stepped up their suppression of any event involving the desecrated phrase or theme.
In February, government supporters and state security agents they violated the fence of activist Anyell Valdés’s house during an act of rejection. The attackers smashed the facade of his house with blue paint to cover the slogan, painting official phrases like ‘Viva Fidel’ and ‘Homeland or Death’ instead.
Recently a Cuban resident of Spain performed a female version of the song, while the international media emphasizes its popularity and importance at times when Cubans seem to be getting worse and worse at the hands of the government, which is proving incapable of meeting people’s most basic needs.
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