| 10/03/2021 – 5:25pm (GMT-4)
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The Cuban ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel He used the PatriayVida hashtag on his Twitter account this Wednesday in a couple of posts of a propaganda nature about the revolution.
It is probably a slip in the official account of the ruler, since said label or hashtag refers to the phrase that titles the song of several Cuban artists who call for the end of the dictatorship on the island. It has become a banner for activists and opponents calling for changes in the country’s political system.
In fact, those who click on the label will notice the content that it brings together, totally different from the governmental tone. Díaz-Canel himself had attacked the issue on Twitter in mid-February, when it was released on YouTube where it gained popularity very quickly.
“This is how the country is sung,” wrote the ruler on the social network, and then reproduced the most famous verses of the aforementioned theme, written by Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez in 1974.
“I live in a free country / which can only be free / on this earth, at this moment / and I am happy because I am a giant / I am happy, I am a happy man / and I want to be forgiven / for this day / my dead happiness, ”Díaz-Canel reproduced.
Days later, the president disqualified the Cubans who, after the success of the song Patria y Vida, they criticized the old slogan of “Homeland or Death”, launched in 1960 by the late dictator Fidel Castro in his speech after the explosion of the ship “La Coubre”.
“Only those who can do without your light and your essences, deny the honorable sacrifice that consecrating your life supposes,” said Díaz-Canel.
At the beginning of March, on the same platform, the president stated that the phrase ‘Patria o Muerte’ is “a declaration of love for the Cuban nation, that was born in the midst of the deepest pain“It is” the slogan that our adversaries fear the most, “he said.
In their song, Yotuel Romero, the duo Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, ask to replace Castro’s slogan with the phrase that titles the song. Hence, its use by Díaz-Canel is surprising, especially because of the evident rejection campaign that it has had from the government in recent weeks.
After the premiere of the issue, the phrase was used on social networks as a broad claim by opponents, appearing on facades, public spaces and written on naked torsos on and off the island. As well named a recent caravan in Miami in order to demonstrate support and solidarity among all Cubans committed to change in the nation.
The activist Anyell Valdés wrote the words on the outside walls of his house and, as a consequence, he was the victim of a violent act of repudiation during which his property was vandalized and caused other damage, in addition to the fact that the aggressors deleted the phrase to replace it with the Castro slogan.
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