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"Patria y Vida" ("Homeland and Life") is a slogan and song associated with the July 2021 Cuban protests. It is an inversion of the Cuban Revolution motto Patria o Muerte ("Homeland or Death"). The slogan was popularized by a reggaeton song released in February 2021 by Yotuel , Beatriz Luengo, Descemer Bueno , Gente de Zona , Luis Manuel Otero ...
Cuban Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba.As a Caribbean variety of Spanish, Cuban Spanish shares a number of features with nearby varieties, including coda weakening and neutralization, non-inversion of Wh-questions, and a lower rate of dropping of subject pronouns compared to other Spanish varieties.
La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana, (The House of Charity and Maternity of Havana) was for 270 years Havana's repository of Havana's unwanted children. The House of Charity started during a time when Cuba was experiencing extreme poverty , unemployment, and corruption in the government.
Main building of the Casa de las Américas in Vedado/Havana. Casa de las Américas is an organization that was founded by the Cuban Government in April 1959, four months after the Cuban Revolution, for the purpose of developing and extending the socio-cultural relations with the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world.
In 2020 the rap song Patria y Vida (English: Fatherland and Life) by Descemer Bueno, Gente De Zona, Maykel Osorbo, El Funky and Yotuel included lyrics that paid tribute to the San Isidro Movement. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The video of the song, often distributed by flash drive in Cuba, includes appearances by members of MSI.
Luis María Aguilera Picca (24 February 1936 – 10 October 2009) was an Argentine singer, songwriter and actor, best known for worldwide hit song '"Cuando salí de Cuba" ("When I Left Cuba"). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This song become the unofficial anthem for Cuban exiles.
Lucumí consists of a lexicon of words and short phrases derived from the Yoruba language and used for ritual purposes in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and their Diasporas. It is used as the liturgical language of Santería in the Spanish Caribbean and other communities that practice Santería/Orisa/the Lucumí religion/Regla de Ocha.
Compay (meaning compadre) Segundo, so called because he was always second voice in his musical partnerships, was born in Siboney, Cuba, and moved to Santiago de Cuba at the age of nine. His first engagement was in the Municipal Band of Santiago de Cuba, directed by his teacher, Enrique Bueno.