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LA HABANA, March.- "Granma", in its March 6th edition, hastened to give its readers the declarations made by Silvio Rodriguez in San Juan, Puerto Rico. According to the newspaper, the singer-composer stated, while in that city, that "the neoliberalism and the globalization of the current markets are passing fads and maintains that the ideas that gave origin to socialism have not lost in force".
The troubadour makes evident a reality from the end of World War II when he said that United States has become "the economic, military and political force that prevails in the world", from which he concluded that "means a return to the causes which generated the ideas of socialism, independence, sovereignty and equality".
Silvio fell in the temptation of so many wisemen, artists and intellectuals who considers that the excellence obtained in the circuit in which he evolves, gives him the capacity to issue a public opinion about anything else, and if I write publicly it is because it is obvious that in the private environment he could think whichever way he thinks convenient. When Silvio, who has gone to San Juan to sing to his public, uses his fame from his admirers to extend the values of his arts to his political declarations, he does nothing else but manipulate them.
Silvio calls himself an advocate of the conception by which the social conditions generates certains ideas, for which he ought to reflect about the causes of the regression of the socialist ideas in all the world, and about the ones that have led to the rebirth of the liberals.
Silvio speaks of equality, nevertheless is more equal than his equals.
Enjoying in the Cuban press the privilege of the monologue, a privilege that only can be given in countries like Cuba. The vehemence by which he defends the socialist ideas contrast with the silence when the socialists in the country, like in the case of Elizardo Sanchez, Vladimiro Roca and their colleagues, are imprisoned, are summoned to the State Police, subjected to organized acts of repudiation, are called imperialist agents, only because they defend a variant of that idea. I've never known that he has publicly repudiated the ostracism of his colleague, singer and author Pedro Luis Ferrer.
I talked about Silvio's statements with some of my neighbors from my loft and some of the youth of the neighborhood, but I abstain from repeating the obscene words with which they expressed their angry condemnations (of him). Almost everyone can't stand the regime's propagandist.
Furthermore, I refuse to reject him as a musician. Not only because he affected me with the "Unicornio Azul", but because I don't want to be like him, but in reverse: to take advantage of the repudiation of his political ideas to denigrate his art.