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OPINION | goodbye dear paul

2022-11-23T19:07:34.819Z


What a tragedy or what luck to have been in the last moments of a great man like Pablo, or Pablito, as we called him at the beginning, when death existed for none of us except in stories or movies, when time was infinite and we we felt immortal


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Editor's Note:

Jorge Dávila Miguel has a degree in Journalism since 1973 and has maintained a continuous career in his profession to date.

He has postgraduate degrees in Social Information Sciences and Social Communication Media, as well as postgraduate studies in International Relations, Political Economy and Latin American History.

Dávila Miguel is a columnist for El Nuevo Herald on the McClatchy network, and a political analyst and columnist for CNN en Español.

The comments expressed in this column belong exclusively to the author.

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(CNN Spanish) --

Pablo Milanés has died in Madrid.

Death had been haunting him for some time and in the early hours of this Tuesday he gave it his final bite.

Fito Páez, a brother in art and in life, was with him and received his last breath.

This is how Juan Pin Vilar, filmmaker, told it in Camilo on CNN.


What a tragedy or what luck to have been in the last moments of a great man like Pablo, or Pablito, as we called him at the beginning, when death existed for none of us except in stories or movies, when time was infinite and we we felt immortal

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Life has already taken him.

The singer dies, the legend is born.

And what will the legend of his life say?

His songs will not be enough, his loves will not be enough, nor his positions, gentle as his melodies, always calibrated with the poetry and truth of his creations.

Firm in essence, beautiful for the harsh reality of his nation.

Endearing and painful at the same time.

Pablo Milanés was a poet in the time of his life and he is a clear poet, always, for the time of his homeland.

A homeland confused and divided against itself, between the two parts, at the same time inseparable and enemies of his troubled body.

Now it will be tried to define to which part Pablo belonged.

Abel Prieto, president of Casa de las Américas, leaves us a sad note on Twitter: “Pablo is ours.

Neither Trumpists, nor neo-Nazis, nor annexationists, devotees of the god Money, full of hatred, and appetites for revenge, could never appropriate his work ”.

Paul is ours.

Neither Trumpists nor neo-Nazis nor annexationists devoted to the God of Money, full of hatred and appetites for revenge, could ever appropriate his work.

He is ours and the many beautiful people in the world who were enlightened by his poetry and his music.

#PabloEsNuestro pic.twitter.com/UFLqqsxjKG

— Abel Prieto (@AbelPrieto11) November 22, 2022

On the other hand, in different notes written for his death in the heat of Miami, his various criticisms of the Cuban Government since his departure in the early 90s are highlighted.

Abel: Pablo, he will always be Pablo in his art and great poetry for the Cuban nation, to which he belongs by right.

And the nation is bigger and more beautiful than any political position.

Like art, which transcends borders and time only because of its human content and its conflicts.

And to the Miami-inspired notes: Pablo remained faithful to his principles of equality and social justice.

Why don't they publish that Pablo Milanés declared: "I'm still a revolutionary" in his interview with the newspaper La República de Perú and in other media?

Pablo considered himself a revolutionary "who has nothing to do with supporting a specific government or a political party, but with an ideology of principles."

Pablo considered himself a revolutionary who criticized the island's government in its different actions, especially after the events of June 2021.

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That cheap and opportunistic struggle with the still unburied body of a world song great dissolves by itself due to its intrinsic vanity.

And I myself have fallen into the cheap dispute, clumsily wanting to say what life will undoubtedly say more clearly, which continues its course after this morning, when Pablo exhaled, this Tuesday, November 22, the last breath of the many that we They vibrated for more than half a century when listening to their songs.

There is the life of Pablo Milanés, which continues despite his physical death.

And in all of it resides his legend, which begins today and belongs to all of us who listen and admire him.

Pablo is gone, he's gone, I can't stop saying, because through his songs we got to know the beauty of his lyrics and his harmony, his poetry.

Because he was "a sincere man from where palm trees grow" according to José Martí, that other great Cuban interpreted for convenience almost always, forgetting his fundamental essence, akin to the truth and not to the partial interests of the human being, ideological or political. .

Pablo has left us, but here he also remains, as long as there is a love to sing about, a life to celebrate or a sorrow to alleviate through his songs.

The world is in mourning, Pablo Milanés has died.

Good trip dear Pablo, you will always live among us.

Source: cnnespanol

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