| 03/02/2021 – 12:47 pm (GMT-4)
The Cuban troubadour Raúl Torres, author of the song ‘Homeland or Death for Life’, responded to the numerous criticisms that the song has received on social media, where he has been object of rejection and ridicule by Internet users on and off the Island.
“Today to find out what a topic works, is watching him raise worm blisters. Ha ha ha ha. Listen, this is on the machete and with the light off,” the troubadour wrote on his Facebook wall.
This recent creation by Torres is being used by the Cuban regime to face the success of ‘Homeland and Life’, A pathetic and desperate attempt that has become a phenomenon on YouTube, but with the opposite effect to what its promoters wanted.
“At least I didn’t stay with my arms crossed! On the machete and with the light off!”, He expressed in another post.
Torres, considered by many to be the most visible voice of Cuban officialdom, could not escape using his vulgar, sexist language that characterizes him on social media.
“They’re not so many but they’re insistent. Like, birds don’t steal feathers!” He said in another post.
Despite the rebuke of the singer-songwriter, his song premiered on the official digital platform Cubadebate has generated thousands of “dislikes”, compared to just over 1,500 likes achieved.
The video clip, in which Torres appears alongside singers Annie Garcés, Dayana Divo, Karla Monier and Yisi Caliber, is a kind of musical pamphlet in which you can hear phrases such as: “Make money from mud well dead / I hope you have funds / To mortgage your time / Because in the Revolution / He has more than 62 millennia left “.
Meanwhile, the video for ‘Homeland and Life’, starring Yotuel, Descemer Bé, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, continues to win praise from Cubans and dissimilar political figures outside the island, as well as international media outlets have referred to her.
With more than 2.5 million plays since its release two weeks ago, the song has served as a stimulus to Cubans, who write the phrase of the title in facades of houses and public places, In the midst of an increase in police repression.
days ago Descemer Bé dedicated a stanza of a song to Raúl Torres, Whom he called a “dictatorship jester.”
“And now with Patria i Vida, things got tough, what will Raúl Torres, a dictator jester, say,” sang Descemer accompanied by his guitar.
“And now with Homeland and Life, things got tough, what am I going to say Abel Prieto, jester of the dictatorship,” added, in reference to the president of the House of the Americas, one of the voices of culture official who charged against ‘Homeland and Life’.