RMS Protest Song On Gitmo

Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 21, 2007 @08:46AM from the serious-parody dept.

An anonymous reader tipped us to a protest song RMS has written and recorded (while visiting Cuba) and is hosting on stallman.org. It's a sort of parody, although it's too serious really to be called that, in Spanish of the song "Guantanamera," in which a Gitmo prisoner talks about his experiences and mourns his fate. RMS wrote the lyrics in 2006 after learning what "Guantanamera" actually means. The lyrics are moving, and the recording, in Ogg, is competent — RMS sings well and he's got some amateur musicians from Cuba backing him up. Here are the lyrics and an English translation.

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Re:Antics like this... by dabadab · 2007-04-21 09:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

"it is totally legal to visit Cuba (up to X times per year, [IIRC X is one])"

You know, having grown up in an Eastern Block country where a symptom of the dictatorship we had was that we were allowed to go to the "West" only once in every four yours, I find this limit in the "Land of Free" totally hilarious (and, on the other hand, totally sad).

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