The lyrics pack in plenty of historical and current references, so we turned to Miami-based Cuban-American musician Lilly Blanco to translate the lyrics and annotate the references. The most important ...

(CNN) -- "Patria o muerte". Es una frase estampada en los pesos cubanos, que fue invocada con frecuencia por el antiguo líder Fidel Castro durante los albores de la revolución comunista del país.

ANAMARIA SAYRE, BYLINE: So the name of the song is "Patria Y Vida," which translates to homeland and life, which is kind of a clever play on a saying that has been used as kind of a mantra in Cuba ...

At that precise moment, Osorbo was sitting in Kilo 5 Y Medio, a maximum-security prison in the rural, tobacco-rich region of Pinar del Río, Cuba, far from the glamour and glitterati of the awards show ...

Leaders from South Florida and throughout the state are marking the one-year anniversary of the unprecedented anti-government protests that swept through Cuba. Thousands of people took to the streets ...

(CNN Español) — «Ya no gritemos ‘Patria o muerte’, sino ‘patria y vida'», es la propuesta de Yotuel Romero, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo y El Funky en su más reciente colaboración, ...

Miami (EE.UU.), 8 jul (EFE).- La compositora y actriz española Beatriz Luengo y el cantante cubano Yotuel Romero insisten en que la llama de la canción 'Patria y Vida', que impulsó las protestas en ...

Para el cantante Yotuel, uno de los intérpretes de "Patria y Vida", "una Cuba nueva está por llegar" El cantante Yotuel, uno de los intérpretes de "Patria y Vida", viajó a Los Ángeles para participar ...

BRUSHING OFF BIG BROTHER A Cuban barber shaves a customer at his privately owned shop in Havana. COMMENTARY Re-engaging Cuba doesn't "knock the wind" out of last summer's Patria y Vida movement. If ...

The phrase comes from a hip-hop song of the same name, "Patria y Vida," released in February as a collaboration between Cuban musicians in exile: Alexander Delgado and Randy Malcom of the duo Gente De ...