3 | 22/02/2021 – 7:45 am (GMT-4)
A group of Cubans have reacted with indignation to The Tarzan of the tails, Musical theme against cholera Home i Kelvis Ochoa, To consider that it mocks the needs of the Cubans and that it trivializes the subject of the scarcity on the island.
Although it was released in November 2020 -since which has not managed to exceed 3 thousand views on YouTube- the song is out now to exemplify the arrangement of the Ministries of Culture and the Egrem to fund a video that privileges the Government’s point of view on cholera; posture very different from the virulence with which the regime has reacted at the premiere of Homeland and Life, Which urges the urgency of democratic change in Cuba.
“When they go to call ‘paid’ those who put their art or work based on criticizing what is wrong in Cuba, remember that this ‘anthem against cholera’ and other similar issues are sponsored (paid) by the Ministry of Culture, the Institute of Music and the EGREM (public money of all of us) “, wrote on Facebook José Raúl Gallego, who ruled that in view of the result and the scope, it is even of “badly spent money.”
“The creative anemia, the indolent hypocrisy and the forced joy that emanate in liters of this cantata and video, are between comic and pathetic”, Wrote the artist Julio Llopiz Casal, who added that it is a product that increases “the list of filth with which the power in Cuba distracts attention from the problems it has, has created and is he flatly refuses to resolve. “
“I just listened to a song that I didn’t like at all. Virulo and Kelvis Ochoa, I think indeed, queues are no mystery to Scotland Yard. They are the responsibility for the mismanagement and precariousness that the government condemns us to. Cuban “, wrote the activist Camila Lobón, who called the song” a caricature that places our economic and political misery as idiosyncratic “.
“It is terrible to trivialize tragedy in the service of power that the cause and at the height of their ages, should not allow such clumsiness, if not hypocrisy. Because I doubt these musicians are queuing up. If they do, unless they are enlightened or masochistic, they would know that there is no comedy in hours, days, months, years, of life and work wasted on bad food and bad living, “Lobón added.
“This theme is a good example of a well-executed musical work that at the same time socializes a message that I interpret as reactionary, With games, delusions and taunts towards the circumstances and those who suffer them (queues, angry and citizens who did not invent them) and ignores and is complacent with the causes and those responsible (political and economic system) “, he wrote for the his band Enrique Guzmán Karell.
“Virulo and Kelvis are not newcomers or naive. As artists and public figures they should know that not everything lends itself to jokes and taunts and that right now this is a subject of very high annoyance and popular impact, and that most of the people know or suspect why they are forced to queue, ”he added.
Guzmán Karell recalls that “There are issues or sensitivities that go beyond political positions and are of simple empathy, respect and common sense.”
“What grace hides being forced to queue in the morning?” He asks, stressing that this is “well-executed but socially irresponsible art,” which invites one to question whether it is conservative, reactionary, complacent art. power, opportunism, art or cowardly interpretation “.
The song has also sparked reactions on Twitter, where a user described it as “denigrating”, “a mockery of the people”, and has asked the two singers to “get off the bush of dishonesty”.
Another opined that Virulo decidedly “the muses went on vacation.” It should be noted that Virulo was the author You don’t mess with Cuba, Theme funded by the Ministry of Culture and released shortly after the eviction of the strikers of Sant Isidre.
Since then, journalists, artists and Cubans in general have lamented and rejected on social media that a talented artist like Virulo kneels so blatantly, from a creative point of view, in front of the Cuban Government.
For the rest, The Tarzan of the tails -directed by Mildrey Ruiz and starring comedian Telo González- refers to a reality that emphasizes the scarcity in which Cubans live.
In the months when the coronavirus curfew was in force in Havana, given the impossibility of queuing in the morning due to the ban on driving from 7 pm to 5 am, there were reports of people queuing up in the trees to circumvent surveillance and being the first to mark in the long queues to buy food.
There was also the case of some who opted for sleep in the hallways of immediate buildings in stores in MLC, And thus try to be the first to arrive.