I guess if you don't know much about Cuba you're left scratching your head about this song.
You have to understand that before Fidel Castro came into power there in the 1960's, it was an extremely popular tourist location with the best nightclubs and cabaret shows (much like Miami) AND they were very advanced in technology and medicine, etc etc. After Castro and communism however, the Cuba we know today came in to play. Poverty, run down buildings, prostitution... so on and so on.
My parents are Cuban and when I compare old videos and pictures they have of the Cuba before to the one I see in documentaries now, it's so different it's bizarre. When he sings "Fugitive of time" it's because it's as if Cuba stopped in the 1960's. All the cars you see are old ones from those times, the streets look exactly the same but very withered and run down, they play the same old music because the government controls everything to a T and doesn't want to let any "liberal" thinking in
It's as if time has stopped, they have not progressed. Cuba's a fugitive of time then so to speak.
El diablo means "the devil" in spanish. It could be a reference to Castro and the communist speeches broadcast on the radio there maybe. Not sure. Then again the sad song that goes on and on is probably a reference to the sad decline that Cuba made because of communism.
I think this song might be about communism on Cuba and that it might be considered anti-communist. The friend with the leather skin and the velvet voice might also refer to Castro, as he is widely known for his long speeches.
I think this song might be about communism on Cuba and that it might be considered anti-communist. The friend with the leather skin and the velvet voice might also refer to Castro, as he is widely known for his long speeches.
However I must strongly disagree with you're opinion on the time before Castro. Of course Castro made it's mistakes, but before that under Batista Cuba was no paradise. Maybe you're parents were on good terms with the dictator Batista, might explain why they were well off. Havana was indeed a good place to be for a lot of people,...
However I must strongly disagree with you're opinion on the time before Castro. Of course Castro made it's mistakes, but before that under Batista Cuba was no paradise. Maybe you're parents were on good terms with the dictator Batista, might explain why they were well off. Havana was indeed a good place to be for a lot of people, especially American tourists. However, behind the whore house for the Americans Batista made of Havana there was a lot of poverty, especially with the sugar farmers in rural Cuba. Literacy also was low in that times. Castro at least made Cuba more fair for the many poor Cubans. The only thing he might have done wrong was being not tough enough on the few rich exploiters who kept the big majority of Cubans poor.
@cocainacouture This is just not true. Havana was a popular tourist location, but Cuba elsewhere was very, very poor. It was colonized by Spain and the U.S. and was purposefully underdeveloped. Havana was a playground for the capitalists from both of those places. In fact, prostitution was extremely prevalent prior to the revolution. It wasn’t until after the revolution and women (and all people) were guaranteed rights to housing, medicine, education, and food, that prostitution started to fall. Literacy rates were so low prior to 1959. Now Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world - higher...
@cocainacouture This is just not true. Havana was a popular tourist location, but Cuba elsewhere was very, very poor. It was colonized by Spain and the U.S. and was purposefully underdeveloped. Havana was a playground for the capitalists from both of those places. In fact, prostitution was extremely prevalent prior to the revolution. It wasn’t until after the revolution and women (and all people) were guaranteed rights to housing, medicine, education, and food, that prostitution started to fall. Literacy rates were so low prior to 1959. Now Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world - higher than the U.S. Cuba did not decline because of communism. It was already a very poor place for most people. Cuba, despite brutal retaliation from capitalist dictators, got better after the revolution, again, despite blockades by imperialists. When one asks, “Was Cuba better of before or after the revolution,” one also must ask, “Better off for whom?”
I guess if you don't know much about Cuba you're left scratching your head about this song.
You have to understand that before Fidel Castro came into power there in the 1960's, it was an extremely popular tourist location with the best nightclubs and cabaret shows (much like Miami) AND they were very advanced in technology and medicine, etc etc. After Castro and communism however, the Cuba we know today came in to play. Poverty, run down buildings, prostitution... so on and so on.
My parents are Cuban and when I compare old videos and pictures they have of the Cuba before to the one I see in documentaries now, it's so different it's bizarre. When he sings "Fugitive of time" it's because it's as if Cuba stopped in the 1960's. All the cars you see are old ones from those times, the streets look exactly the same but very withered and run down, they play the same old music because the government controls everything to a T and doesn't want to let any "liberal" thinking in
It's as if time has stopped, they have not progressed. Cuba's a fugitive of time then so to speak.
El diablo means "the devil" in spanish. It could be a reference to Castro and the communist speeches broadcast on the radio there maybe. Not sure. Then again the sad song that goes on and on is probably a reference to the sad decline that Cuba made because of communism.
I think this song might be about communism on Cuba and that it might be considered anti-communist. The friend with the leather skin and the velvet voice might also refer to Castro, as he is widely known for his long speeches.
I think this song might be about communism on Cuba and that it might be considered anti-communist. The friend with the leather skin and the velvet voice might also refer to Castro, as he is widely known for his long speeches.
However I must strongly disagree with you're opinion on the time before Castro. Of course Castro made it's mistakes, but before that under Batista Cuba was no paradise. Maybe you're parents were on good terms with the dictator Batista, might explain why they were well off. Havana was indeed a good place to be for a lot of people,...
However I must strongly disagree with you're opinion on the time before Castro. Of course Castro made it's mistakes, but before that under Batista Cuba was no paradise. Maybe you're parents were on good terms with the dictator Batista, might explain why they were well off. Havana was indeed a good place to be for a lot of people, especially American tourists. However, behind the whore house for the Americans Batista made of Havana there was a lot of poverty, especially with the sugar farmers in rural Cuba. Literacy also was low in that times. Castro at least made Cuba more fair for the many poor Cubans. The only thing he might have done wrong was being not tough enough on the few rich exploiters who kept the big majority of Cubans poor.
@cocainacouture This is just not true. Havana was a popular tourist location, but Cuba elsewhere was very, very poor. It was colonized by Spain and the U.S. and was purposefully underdeveloped. Havana was a playground for the capitalists from both of those places. In fact, prostitution was extremely prevalent prior to the revolution. It wasn’t until after the revolution and women (and all people) were guaranteed rights to housing, medicine, education, and food, that prostitution started to fall. Literacy rates were so low prior to 1959. Now Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world - higher...
@cocainacouture This is just not true. Havana was a popular tourist location, but Cuba elsewhere was very, very poor. It was colonized by Spain and the U.S. and was purposefully underdeveloped. Havana was a playground for the capitalists from both of those places. In fact, prostitution was extremely prevalent prior to the revolution. It wasn’t until after the revolution and women (and all people) were guaranteed rights to housing, medicine, education, and food, that prostitution started to fall. Literacy rates were so low prior to 1959. Now Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world - higher than the U.S. Cuba did not decline because of communism. It was already a very poor place for most people. Cuba, despite brutal retaliation from capitalist dictators, got better after the revolution, again, despite blockades by imperialists. When one asks, “Was Cuba better of before or after the revolution,” one also must ask, “Better off for whom?”