| 01/03/2021 – 18:42 (GMT-4)
Singer – songwriter Raúl Torres, known for his continued defenses against the Cuban government and their representatives sometimes even rude, released on Monday a song in response to the song Patria y Vida, performed by Yotuel Romero, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky.
The official Cubadebate platform released the video “Homeland or Death for Life” after announcing it on social networks and previously distributed the lyrics of the song, which ensures, among other things, that “the revolution has over 62 thousand millennia left”.
Torres, very dedicated to launching videos of this nature together with other artists, was accompanied for the occasion by other musicians such as the young Annie Garcés, who came out of the “careers” of the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS), Dayana Divo, Karla Monier and Caliber Yisi. The song has several rap passages and allusions to Cuban coronavirus vaccines: Sovereign, Abdala and Mambisa.
“Say what you want about me, I’m totally vaccinated. In the model with Mambisa “, says Torres, in clearly propagandistic lines, dressed in a red guayabera shirt.
The theme was ultimately an attempt that left much to be desired, judging by the reactions of users. “God, I don’t think it went very well for them. And that they had time. What my people really need is less “spontaneous” responses (like this one), less repression, 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 the Fatherland and of Life! “Said one of them.
“Evaluating the musical subject, it is not even classified as a song, it is a huge stupidity. Study time, registration and public money wasted in that mess “, says another. “They made that song with the money that Etecsa steals from Cubans or with the chicken that henchmen eat,” says a third Internet user.
“I don’t know what to do to be able to face a growing movement inside and outside the island … desperate measures, repression in broad daylight, crying children, raising dollars, a press that insults those who I disagree, boxing ministers, despair, fear, inconsistency, lies … maybe this is not the end of the coup and dictatorial government implanted in Cuba in 1959, but it is certain that it is the beginning of the end of its days “, he said another.
So there are more than a hundred comments with an overwhelming majority calling the artists participating in this new video “ridiculous” to which the government allocates its resources in the midst of a severe economic crisis that Cubans have facing long lines to buy food or commodities.
Meanwhile, the song “Patria y Vida” continues to grow in popularity, with over 2.5 million views since its premiere two weeks ago on YouTube. The expression appears on the facades of the house and in public places, while the government represses those who use it. Some of the most well-known international media echoed the success and highlighted the aggressiveness with which the administration of Miguel Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro reacted.
Regarding the answer of Raúl Torres, Descemer Bueno himself he had been surprised by the troubadour, with two songs of post-mortem praise to Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez that earned him the nickname “necrotrovador”, he would not have jumped to the forefront with a response to the triumph of Patria and Vida. Bueno described Torres as a “dictatorship jester.”
We had to wait until Monday for Cubadebate to celebrate its premiere. Time will tell which of the two songs will have more “punch”.