Blockades won't win you more votes
A Cuban adjustment act (1)
Offer the world a dream
Dress it up - it's blackmail
Internal matter they say
For two million dollars a day
Maybe a future in film
But Cuban boxers still win (2)
Kidnapped to the promised land
The Bay Of Pigs (3)
Or baby Elián
Operation Peter Pan (4)
America
The Devil's playground
Baby Elián
Baby Elián
Across the unfair divide
Where black will never meet white
So read my token lips
As if they never exist
You cannot buy a nation
Not even Miami mob
We follow a shining path
That you will never destroy
Kidnapped to the promised land
The Bay Of Pigs
Or baby Elián
Operation Peter Pan
America
The Devil's playground
You don't just sit in a rocking chair
When you've built a revolution
You don't just sit in a rocking chair
When you've built a revolution
Baby Elián
Baby Elián
A Cuban adjustment act (1)
Offer the world a dream
Dress it up - it's blackmail
Internal matter they say
For two million dollars a day
Maybe a future in film
But Cuban boxers still win (2)
Kidnapped to the promised land
The Bay Of Pigs (3)
Or baby Elián
Operation Peter Pan (4)
America
The Devil's playground
Baby Elián
Baby Elián
Across the unfair divide
Where black will never meet white
So read my token lips
As if they never exist
You cannot buy a nation
Not even Miami mob
We follow a shining path
That you will never destroy
Kidnapped to the promised land
The Bay Of Pigs
Or baby Elián
Operation Peter Pan
America
The Devil's playground
You don't just sit in a rocking chair
When you've built a revolution
You don't just sit in a rocking chair
When you've built a revolution
Baby Elián
Baby Elián
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(2) Teófilo Stevenson, così come Félix Savón, sono pugili che hanno dato lustro a Cuba, vincendo più volte il titolo mondiale. Quest’ultimo, in particolare, vinse praticamente tutto dal 1986 al 2000.
(3) Bahía de Cochinos, la baia dei Porci, precisamente a Playa Girón, è il luogo del tentativo statunitense di invadere Cuba, miseramente fallito nel 1961.
Al proposito si vedano, ad esempio, Ballad Of The Cuban Invasion di Phil Ochs e Havana Affair dei Ramones.
(4) L’operazione “Peter Pan” fu un’iniziativa del Governo, in collaborazione con la chiesa cattolica statunitense, grazie alla quale, tra la fine del 1960 ed il 1962, ben 14.000 minori cubani, appartenenti a famiglie contrarie alla rivoluzione castrista, furono trasportati illegalmente negli USA per essere poi qui riuniti (non senza difficoltà, visto che nel 1962 ci fu la crisi dei missili sovietici e ogni relazione e comunicazione tra i due paesi fu interrotta) ai loro genitori.
L’argomento è ovviamente ancora oggi controverso, basta scorrere le pagine relative su en.wikipedia ed es.wikipedia.