01/03/2021 – 6:42 PM (GMT-4)
Singer-songwriter Raúl Torres, known for his ongoing defense against the Cuban government and their representatives, sometimes even rude, premiered this Monday with a song to respond to the song Patria y Vida, performed by Yotuel Romero, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky.
The official platform Cubadebate launched the video of “Homeland or Death for Life” after announcing it on social networks and previously sharing the lyrics, which among other things makes for that ‘the revolution has more than 62 thousand millennia left’
In high demand to launch videos of this nature with other artists, Torres was joined for the occasion by other musicians such as the young Annie Garcés, who emerged from the “quarries” of the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS), Dayana Divo, Karla Monier and Yisi Caliber. The song contains some reports and allusions to Cuban vaccines against the coronavirus: Sovereign, Abdala and Mambisa
“Say what you want from me, totally, I’ve been vaccinated. On the machete with Mambisa, ”Torres says in clear propaganda lines, dressed in a red guayabera shirt.
The theme was ultimately an attempt that, judging from the reactions of the users, left a lot to be desired. “By God, I don’t think it did them that good. And that they had time. What my people really need are less “spontaneous” reactions (like this one), less oppression, less bureaucracy, less impudence! and more food, democracy and human rights. Homeland is not the government, Homeland is my family, my people, my culture. We want a Cuba of homeland and life! Said one of them.
“Evaluating the subject musically, it doesn’t even classify it as a song, it’s a huge nonsense. Study time, admissions and public money are wasted in that mess, ”says another. “They made that song with the money that Etecsa steals from the Cubans or with the chicken that the henchmen eat,” said a third internet user.
“They no longer know what to do to face a movement that is growing day by day inside and outside the island … desperate measures, repression in broad daylight, crying children, raising dollars, a press that insults those. who disagree, boxing ministers, despair, fear, incoherence, lies … maybe this is not the end of the coup and the dictatorial government that was implanted in Cuba in 1959, but what is certain is that this is the beginning from the end of his days. another.
And so follow more than a hundred comments with an overwhelming majority calling the performers participating in this new video “ridiculous,” to which the government is allocating its resources amid a severe economic crisis facing Cubans. faced with long lines to buy food or basic necessities
Meanwhile, the song “Patria y Vida” continues to grow in popularity with more than 2.5 million views since its premiere two weeks ago on YouTube. The phrase appears on the facades of houses and in public places, while the government oppresses those who use itSome of the best-known international media have echoed the success and highlighted the aggressiveness with which the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro has responded.
About the reaction of Raúl Torres, Descemer Bueno himself he had been amazed at the troubadour, with two post-mortem songs of praise to Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez earning him the nickname “necrotrovador”, he wouldn’t have jumped to the fore with an answer to Patria y Vida’s triumph. Bueno described Torres as a “buffoon of the dictatorship”.
We had to wait until next Monday for Cubadebate to celebrate its premiere. Time will tell which of the two songs will have more punch.