{"id":540201,"date":"2021-05-25T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540201"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:36:08","slug":"my-people-demand-freedom-cuban-popstars-blast-communist-regime-with-viral-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-people-demand-freedom-cuban-popstars-blast-communist-regime-with-viral-song\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My People Demand Freedom!\u2019: Cuban Popstars Blast Communist Regime With Viral Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmy-people-demand-freedom-cuban-popstars-blast-communist-regime-with-viral-song%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232583317.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A group of Cuban artists has released a viral song openly critical of the nation\u2019s communist regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The artists \u2014 Alexander Delgado and Randy Malcom of Grammy-winning reggaeton group Gente de Zona and singer Descemer Bueno, who live in Miami; Yotuel Romero, who lives in Spain; and rappers Maykel Castillo (known as Maykel Osorbo) and Eli\u00e9cer Marquez (known as \u201cEl Funky\u201d), who live in Cuba \u2014 recently released a song entitled \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pP9Bto5lOEQ\"><span>Patria y Vida<\/span><\/a><span>.\u201d Since its release in February, the music video has amassed over five million views on YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the release of the song, Castillo was reportedly<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freemuse.org\/news\/cuba-rapper-arrested-over-covid-19-video-freemuse\/\"> <span>detained<\/span><\/a><span> by Cuban authorities after asking why he was being surveilled by police. One month later, he was reportedly beaten by two individuals as onlooking Cuban law enforcement officials recorded the incident without intervening. According to local<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.periodicocubano.com\/agentes-golpean-y-lesionan-la-nariz-del-rapero-cubano-maykel-osorbo\/\"> <span>reports<\/span><\/a><span>, the attack left Castillo with a broken nose.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPatria y Vida\u201d translates to \u201cHomeland and Life,\u201d a direct challenge to Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara\u2019s infamous<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/speakola.com\/political\/che-guevara-united-nations-1964\"> <span>slogan<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cPatria o Muerte\u201d \u2014 \u201cHomeland or Death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s over. No more lies! My people demand freedom. No more doctrines! Let\u2019s no longer shout \u2018Patria o Muerte,\u2019 but \u2018Patria y Vida,\u2019\u201d says one verse of the song. \u201cStop the blood from flowing for daring to think differently\u2026 Your time has expired, silence has been broken.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Patria y Vida - Yotuel , Gente de Zona, Decemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo , El Funky\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pP9Bto5lOEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s over now \u2014 you, fifty-nine [1959]. Me, double-two [2020],\u201d says the chorus, referring to the year of the Cuban Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cuba\u2019s regime was not enthused. President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel tweeted that the artists\u2019 desire was to \u201cerase our motto.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.3581081081081\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PatriaOMuerte?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PatriaOMuerte<\/a>! gritamos miles anoche, con los aplausos de las 9 y el himno de Perucho Figueredo. Quisieron borrar nuestra consigna y <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cuba<\/a> la viraliz\u00f3 en las redes. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CubaViva?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CubaViva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SomosCuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SomosCuba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SomosContinuidad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SomosContinuidad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xPMK0wLbWl\">pic.twitter.com\/xPMK0wLbWl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel Berm\u00fadez (@DiazCanelB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiazCanelB\/status\/1362739826282422272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Writing for<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.granma.cu\/cuba\/2021-02-18\/cual-patria-y-cual-vidacual-patria-y-cual-vida-18-02-2021-14-02-35\"> <span>Granma<\/span><\/a><span> \u2014 a Cuban state media outlet sympathetic to the communist regime \u2014 one journalist states:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cNeither fame, nor talent (or its absence), nor imagined glory, neither likes, nor views on the Internet, neither real nor paid. The sincere hand does not join with stagings where there is neither homeland nor life. The voice, the hands, the dreams, and the history that carries the names and surnames of true Cubans <\/span><\/i><span>\u2014<\/span><i><span> let us know that Homeland or Death has always been a banner for life.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cThose of us who have Homeland know that.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>Citing the current political climate, the artists explained that citizens are more willing to confront the Cuban government.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is the most critical moment that the dictatorship has faced,\u201d Bueno told<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/cuba\/article249458970.html\"> <span>The Miami Herald<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cThis is the moment many people like me have always waited for. If I had been asked to do this before, I would not have been prepared. I would not have had the anger that seeing the way the dictatorship has treated the people in the last year caused me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Coco Fusco \u2014 an international artist and Guggenheim Fellowship awardee \u2014 told The Miami Herald that \u201cthe collaboration between musicians inside and outside the island is a powerful message for Cubans and also for the Cuban state.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt overcomes the official discourse that always seeks to divide Cubans into good and bad, revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries, islanders and exiles. United we win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Cuban artists has released a viral song openly critical of the nation\u2019s communist regime.The artists \u2014 Alexander Delgado and Randy Malcom of Grammy-winning reggaeton group Gente de &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312993,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232583317.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018My People Demand Freedom!\u2019: Cuban Popstars Blast Communist Regime With Viral Song","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232583317.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018My People Demand Freedom!\u2019: Cuban Popstars Blast Communist Regime With Viral Song","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}