Viva Che! End the Embargo ! Song for Elian (written in 2000)

GUSANOS ! BE WARNED ! YOUR HOSTILE MESSAGES WILL BE DELETED. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.
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NEWS BULLETIN: Thaw in US-Cuba relations is under way:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090417/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_us_cuba

I wrote and recorded this song in 2000 to support the demand that Elian Gonzalez, held captive by Miami Cubans, be returned to his father Juan Gonzalez in Cuba. At this time I have posted it to promote the demand that the embargo against Cuba be ended.

Comments from people around the world who support this demand are invited.

Here is an archive document of an internet post of the lyrics. Read the comments below the song lyrics:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011007142913/www.pathtofreedom.com/forelian.htm

History of Elian's Ordeal and the Song

In 1999 Elian Gonzalez was a 6-year-old boy living in Cuba. His parents were divorced and had joint custody. He was with his mother in December 1999. Instead of returning him to his father Juan, she and her boyfriend boarded a leaky boat with Elian with the intention of stealing him from his father and living in the Cuban community in Miami.

A few miles south of Miami the boat sank. They had one inner tube. The mother put Elian out to sea on the inner tube and she and the boyfriend went down with the boat.

After two days, Elian was discovered by a fisherman who was a Miami Cuban. The fisherman took him to the home of his great uncle Lazaro, who did not send him back to his father in Cuba. Instead, Lazaro tried to turn him into an anti-Castro propaganda tool.

In January the INS ruled that Elian should be returned to his father, but it was several months before they raided Lazaro's home to rescue him. During this period Elian's family in Cuba suffered great torment.

In the meantime, I was inspired to write this song. Now I am posting it at youtube in hopes of helping to re-ignite the demand to end the ridiculous embargo of Cuba.

I recorded the song in 2000. The video is not very good, but files have to be in video format to be uploaded here, so I used it. The background is obviously fake. I made the video in the following year, when the University of Oklahoma student union hired a crew to entertain students by letting them make videos of themselves lip-syncing to pop music recordings.

I showed up with my own recording of the Elian song and asked if they would make a video of me lip-syncing to it. At least it's my own recording. I did the vocal, mandolin, and guitar. The bass was added by Ernie Tullis of PDM Recording, in Oklahoma City. There were no electronic tricks used to make me sound better.

For the video I was wearing a costume I used to wear when playing mandolin in an Italian restaurant.

Here is a BBC report about Elian, five years after the ordeal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4471099.stm

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Elian
• Gonzalez
• Che
• Guevara
• Cuba
• Embargo
• Fidel
• Castro

[riethc]

Who is Elian?

[MichaelPhillipWright]

In 1999 Elian was a 6-year-old boy in Cuba. His parents were divorced with joint custody, In December his mother and her boyfriend had him and left Cuba for Miami on an old boat which sank. They put Elian out in an inner tube and 2 days later he was rescued by a Castro-hating Miami Cuban. Miami Cubans held him captive for several months and tried to use him as a propaganda instrument. Finally the INS moved in and rescued him and Elian was returned to his father and taken back to Cuba.

[sultanknish]

Dear Michael Philip Wright,

Your performance in support of a totalitarian regime is fantastically convincing.

Do you have any performances where you croon among the wheatfields of Ukraine in support of Stalin's Holodomor or you could put on a Kimono and use a backdrop of a field of skulls to deliver a rousing musical number defending Pol Pot.

That's just one of the many places you can go. Aside from Cuba that is.

[MichaelPhillipWright]

I see. Elian Gonzalez was to be blamed for whatever happened in the Ukraine. You Castro-haters make a lot of sense. Too bad for you. Obama will be ending the embargo soon and then I'll do exactly that. I'll go to Cuba and hang out on the beaches and drink their fine rum. I just hope the Cubans don't get conned into letting Wall Mart come in and ruin their country. Your silly "performance" is "fantastically" unconvincing. I can see that you are in deep pain.

[MichaelPhillipWright]

BULLETIN: Thaw in US-Cuba relations is under way.

See the news link in my text box.

Too bad, gusanos. Your day is over !

You have wasted your lives !

[depotdollars]

no freedom of speech? typical

[MichaelPhillipWright]

You don't have a clue what freedom of speech means, fool. Freedom of speech does not mean I have to let any damn fool come into my house and spew his propaganda. You are free to get your own video forum and blabber imperialist propaganda to your heart's content. I won't be there to bother you.

[soonersublime]

Your a Socialist that lives in Oklahoma, a prominent Red State. You trash our country because of what it stands for, when what it stands for gives you the ability to trash our country. We all have freedoms that allow us to achieve and acquire things at a faster rate than most nations, but we earned them collectively with the blood of our anscestors. We can't impose are will on other nations no matter how hard we try to allow the freedoms to extend to them. We can only be an influencing factor.

[QbanCr85Rider]

Fuck you my dads a gusano! One day if all my cubans are down ima kill you people that assist Fidel shoot me your adress and i'll bury you man

[MichaelPhillipWright]

Abajo con los gusanos. Que se acabe el embargo.

[4Barbudos]

(Gusanos can't hide from reality) ---> CUBA under the Dictator Batista:

- Americans owned 70 % of the arable land

- 1% of the population controlled 46 % of the wealth

- Batista's goons and secret police killed 20,000 Cubans (tortured even more)

- 67 % of the population were illiterate

- 50 % of the population lived in Bohio shacks

[depotdollars]

Cuba Libre!!!!!! Free Cuba!!!!!abajo fidel!!!!!

Que Viva Los Cubanos De Miami!!!!!! Freedom!!!!!! Democracy!!!!! Capitalism!!!!!

Cuba Will be the 51st state of The United States Of America!!!!! Que Viva Miami!!!!