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Tag: Cuban Rap Movement

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Cuba: With A Machete And The Light Turned Off

by El Tecolote Staff July 30, 2021August 2, 2021

Editor’s note: Elier Alvarez is an Afro Cuban spoken word artist living in Havana, Cuba. Alvarez wrote this testimony in response to the protests against the government of Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel.  When I think about what is happening right now in Cuba and in my own life, I only see Cuban hip hop. I […]

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