21/02/2021 – 10:57 am (GMT-4)
Cuban Manuel Viera, friend and former study partner of Yotuel Romero, dedicated an emotional open letter to the singer, about whom the topic is today insults and slander from the Cuban government and its supporters for the release of the song Homeland and Life
Viera, who studied with Yotuel at the Camilo Cienfuegos Military School in Arroyo Arenas when she “Two children indoctrinated like all Cubans from primary school”, said he was disgusted by how they tried to humiliate, discredit and slander the artist.
After recalling some of the experiences they had together during those years, Viera was proud of someone who one day shared “shark mince and carrot candies” with him.
“You have been worthy to sing for your people, against humiliation and despair, against the pointed gun, against the derogatory motto, against the ill-told story,” wrote Viera.
The singer’s friend regretted that they wanted to discredit and insult him as a political strategy and rejected the ‘ministry of the uneducated that They called you “black jinetero.” Y the statement of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, “which enabled the PCC’s inquisitorial trials against its gay members until a few years ago.”
Below, CiberCuba lists Manuel Viera’s letter to Yotuel:
Yotu:
We were only 15 years old when fate took us to the Camilo Cienfuegos Military School in Arroyo Arenas, that was it, or eating donkey bananas in a pre in the field in the middle of the special period. Two children indoctrinated from primary school like all Cubans, until study and practice prompted us to think for ourselves.
I remember your enthusiasm and joy, I remember you were one of the lucky few who caught a girlfriend from the 33 possibilities we had to contest among 167 young people full of adrenaline and full of hormones. I remember how many shark mince and carrot candy we had to eat, or run three miles every day in “behemoth” boots at 6 in the morning. I remember your love of chemistry you were a monitor of, you loved experiments, I remember a science fair where you made a bomb, I remember your love of dancing and recreation. You really did much better than me, you were balanced and I the computer that never stopped studying. I always remember worrying about your mother, a good leader, good at physical exercises, the ace of the sizes and the parallel, my arch enemies. I found you in the vedado years later, still without fame, and you told me that you worked as a model and made a movie in France, I hardly believed you! Then Orishas came and justice was done to your talent. You had the decorum as a Cuban worth asking for peace in Cuba at a concert that asked for peace, not communism, but that more than benefits would do harm to its famous participants, because to be on that side of it. ship to 90 percent of the world. Canel finally arrived, and his destructive policies added to the misery of our already long-suffering people. You have been worthy to sing for your people, against humiliation and despair, against the pointed gun, against the derogatory motto, against the ill-told story. I see in disgust how they try to humiliate you, discredit you with foolish and stupid political strategies, how they discriminated against you, insulted you, how they called you ‘black jinetero’ from the ministry of the uneducated or released memes calling you a mercenary as if you were not the whiteness of the soul, that’s the point and in that case they beat the night.
Yesterday came out the revolutionary UNEAC, the union that unites its artists in an attack on any thought inconsistent with its politics, the same UNEAC that until a few years ago allowed the PCC’s inquisitorial trials against its gay members for them as inappropriate and immoral while then President Barnet, with very high morale and his party card in his pocket, walked with young men in their twenties through the Vedado, the same UNEAC that should be neutral to unite and represent all members.
I want you to know that it is not for nothing, this people is waking up, millions support you in Cuba and millions more outside Cuba. We are in battle!
I wish you the best, my brother, because you deserve it, Homeland and Life.
Your friend,
Viera.