The Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina was disappointed and annoyed with some leftist governments in Latin America, especially with the regimes in Nicaragua and Cuba.
“I am outraged by Daniel Ortega’s betrayal of Nicaragua. This is something I can’t talk about without shitting on those responsible for the infamy, the betrayal,” said the artist in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
Sabina’s last performance in Nicaragua was in March 2018 —at the Rubén Darío theater in Managua—, a few weeks after the start of the civic protests in April of that year that were appeased with bullets by the Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime. .
The police and paramilitary repression left, according to national and international organizations, more than 330 assassinated, thousands of disappeared and hundreds of thousands of citizens in exile.
This is the second time that Sabina has referred to the Nicaraguan situation so far in 2022. Last September, in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Paísthe composer commented that he observes “with enormous tears and pain in my heart, what is happening in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela.”
As for Nicaragua, There are no words for that scoundrel Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo”, affirmed the influential interpreter of songs like “The boulevard of broken dreams”, “And yet” and “19 days and 500 nights”.
He is no longer a “friend” of the Cuban revolution
In both interviews, Sabina revealed her disappointment and disenchantment with some leftist politicians. “Those of us who have been on the left have a responsibility to tell the truth in the face of some disasters on the left,” she said.
“I am very pissed off. And also pissed off with the devastating failure of all the revolutions of the 20th century. I was a friend of the Cuban revolution and of Fidel Castro. But I am no longer, I cannot be, ”he stressed.
“Now,” he continued, “I am on the side of those who are demonstrating and of those who are exiled from the Island (of Cuba).”
At the beginning of this November, the Spanish singer announced that he will return to the stage in 2023 with a tour of Latin America, which will begin on February 25 in San José, Costa Rica, will go through Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and It will arrive in Spain on April 20.
These will be their first performances after a spectacular fall that they suffered while performing in Madrid, in February 2020.
