Madrid Spain. The singer Haydée Milanés, daughter of the emblematic Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés (1943-2022), referred to her father’s process of disappointment with the Cuban Revolution, which, according to her, was “one of the greatest sadness in her father’s life ”.
In interview with the journalist Ernesto Morales Haydée pointed out that it was a process that lasted years and that “it ended up killing him.”
“I saw how he was constantly disappointed in all things. And she would hear him say phrases like `Do you think we have fought for this? So that people are going through this work, so that people are living this way,’ ”she recalled.
In addition, he pointed out that his father really believed in that system, as several of his songs reflect; She “believed in it because he believed in social justice and supported a system because he believed it would be something positive for everyone,” argues the singer.
Regarding his father’s disappointment with the Castro regime, he specified that the first great disappointment for him was in 1989, after the fall of the USSR, “when he thought that important changes were going to be made for the country to move forward and give it give people the chance to prosper.”
Pablo Milanés, one of the founders of Nueva Trova and author of songs like “Yolanda” and “Para vivir”, was one of the main promoters of the Cuban regime during the first decades of the Revolution. However, over the years Gave a spin to his speech about the government and began to make statements about the failure of the system.
Haydée Milanés, who, like her father, broke with the Castro regime years ago and who has lived in the United States for a few months, recently stated on his departure from Cuba: “I can say that the last year was terrible.” (…) The country is “increasingly deteriorated and impoverished (…) while the official discourse does not stop repeating and talking about a social equality that is a lie.”
