The official troubadour Raúl Torres stated that the Cuban Revolution “has more than 62,000 millennia left” in a poem initially published on its social networks and later replicated by the official website Cubadebate, with which he responded to the song “Patria y Vida”.
In the text, entitled “Patria o Muerte por la Vida”, the singer-songwriter accuses the members of the duo Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Yotuel, Maykel Obsorbo and El Funky of making the song for economic and profitability reasons.
“They are left without a face again / The offenders of the people / Another ticket gap / Today I react, then I provide”, say a few verses.
The musician also mentioned the United States, the scapegoat for most of the island’s problems under the regime: “It makes shit profitable / That the empire makes money / It makes it profitable to lie / and confuse peoples.”
“The government that sponsors you has killed, mutilated and separated thousands of yours. That doesn’t tell you anything, coward. For that and more, always, country or death,” a user named Yaisel Pieter replied on his networks social.
Numerous state media have replicated the lyrics written by the deputy at the National Assembly of Popular Power since 2018, as in the case of Radio Cadena Habana, which described the song “Patria şi Vida” as “buffoon” and “anticunan” and from “Worthless and worthless artists” for their authors.
Torres became an official troubadour of the regime since, on the death of Hugo Chávez, he composed “The Return of the Friend”, dedicated to the Venezuelan; then, “Through the Sun,” 88-year-old Fidel Castro, and two years later, “Cabalgando con Fidel,” the regime’s anthem at Castro’s death. “Between laurels and olive trees” came a year later.
Because he did not want to stop dedicating a song to Raúl Castro, he did so in “El Último Mambí”, where he compares the soldier to Sancho Panza.
On this line of “find in time”, in 2016 he dedicated the theme “Baracoa rises” to one of the regions most devastated by Hurricane Matthew, which hit Cuba that summer, and in 2018 launched “Hotel Tulipán” for victims from the May air disaster.
This insistence on his painful business led the Cuban choteo to baptize him as a “necrotrovador.”
Torres assured in an interview on the official website Cuba Yes that he did not charge any money for the songs he wrote “during the revolution.” On that occasion, he described as “fascist command” those who attack him on social networks for composing this type of subject.