The harvest of Homeland and Life, that yesterday got two awards at the Latin GrammysThe Cuban government has not fallen well at all, which considers it an “absolute out of tune” to have included the critical issue with the Government of the Island among the nominees. So much so, that a column in Granma signed by Pedro de la Hoz its titled Fake notes in Las Vegas.
The author considers it a total folly to have included among the applicants “a pamphlet produced and designed based on the attempted soft coup that the previous and current United States Government, its federal agencies and related institutions, the ultra-right entrenched in Florida and his internal acolytes plotted to subvert the political and social system adopted by the vast majority of Cubans. “
Homeland and Life, written by Yotuel romero, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Maykel Castillo Osorbo, Yadam González and Beatriz Luengo (the only non-Cuban composer who does not interpret the song), made it full by finally obtaining the awards for Song of the Year and Best Urban Song. On stage, the presence of the absent Osorbo – imprisoned and ill on the island – became evident as his companions permanently remembered him.
But De la Hoz is not struck by this absence, but rather that the rest of the winners could thank family and friends or mention causes that for him seem to be “considered”
But De la Hoz is not struck by this absence, but rather that the rest of the winners could thank family and friends or mention causes that seem to be “considered” for him, be it the global importance of the Latin or the feminism, and the team of Patria y Vida, diminished, allow themselves to make their own claim, which in their opinion was “a delusional fiction that they want to make believe: that of a bankrupt, ungovernable, dictatorial Cuba, urged by a supposedly saving aggression “.
It is not very clear where the reflection comes from, since Romero, spokesperson for the group, limited himself precisely to thanking his wife (co-author of the work) and his mother for the award and dedicating it “to all Latin mothers around the world who they fight for the dreams of their children “, in addition to their” Cuba libre “and Osorbo.
To back up his view that the award has political content, De la Hoz cites three media outlets that he calls not very progressive. Political affiliation is something difficult to verify, since only one of the statements can be verified and it is an editorial note from The vanguard, Catalan center-right Spanish newspaper. In the brief note, the newspaper starts saying: “Homeland and Life It has become the new anthem that unites Cubans both inside and outside the country. For this reason, beyond the musical motives, the next edition of the Latin Grammy has wanted to nominate it for two awards. “At no time is the musical quality of the work questioned, as De la Hoz suggests, but rather a mention of the success is added and symbolism of the song.
The rest of the declarations that, according to Granma, musically questioning the song are from “a Californian station” and “a Mexican journalist, in a newspaper with wide circulation”, but although neither can be verified, they do not seem to be decisive to validate or not the awards.
To spice up the piece, the columnist also criticizes the gala and lavishes substantial and inelegant insults to the singers.
To spice up the piece, the columnist also criticizes the gala and lavishes substantial and inelegant insults on the singers. “The Show It began in the afternoon, with the ridiculous staging starring one of the interpreters of the monster, a small-time reggaeton, brought at the last minute from Cuba and who in one of his first acts was touched by Luis Almagro, the unpresentable secretary oas general [sic], and the Spanish actress handcuffed to the most active member of the team, the same one who wants the Biden administration to start up its war machine, the European Union joins the blockade and more money flows for the overthrow of the legitimate Cuban government. “
De la Hoz also has a few words for the Estefans, who have emigrated from Cuba for no less than 60 years.
The whole of the gala, described as “debauchery”, is badly placed in the column, which calls it a “poor demonstration applauded more in Miami than in Las Vegas, more in the circles of the anti-Cuban leaders than among those attending the event in the MGM Green Grand Arena “.
But at some point De la Hoz did like the gala, and it was none other than when they awarded those who he did place, doing in some cases a disservice – such as Alain Pérez, an open critic of the Government in 11J -, on the side of the good guys. “Luckily there was another Cuba at the awards,” says, before mentioning Alain Pérez and Issac Delgado, the jazz player Iván Cantaloupe Lewis, Máximo Espinosa from Santiago and Manuel Barrueco. There the jury is not wrong
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