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12 | the <strong>Alamar</strong> travel guide<br />
standstill. Fidel Castro, El Commandante, said ‘Stop’. Carlos Puebla, the Singer of<br />
the Revolution’, composed the song ‘Y en eso llegó Fidel’ (‘And then Fidel arrived’)<br />
on this decisive moment, which interestingly clearly points at aspects of the urban<br />
development and economy of Cuba as the stumbling stones for the new revolutionary<br />
regime: speculation, the unlimited building of apartment houses and land grabbing are<br />
clearly pointed out as the bad practices that crippled the Cuban population:<br />
Aquí pensaban seguir<br />
ganando el ciento por ciento<br />
con casas de apartamentos<br />
y echar al pueblo a sufrir<br />
Y seguir de modo cruel<br />
contra el pueblo conspirando<br />
para seguirlo explotando...<br />
y en eso llegó Fidel<br />
Here they wanted to continue<br />
taking everything for a 100%,<br />
having apartment houses,<br />
and making people suffer.<br />
And continuing in a cruel way<br />
to conspire against the people<br />
to continue exploiting them...<br />
and then Fidel arrived.
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