Backstage gossip about Juanes' peace concert in Havana

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First, "gossip" does equate with "UNtruth."

2nd, any thread hijackers out there who want to flame in OT sub-threads about whether the word "Hispanic" is legitimate or not, this disussion is as old as DU and has been thoroughly hashed over, so please start your own thread.


Finally, I saw this information on the Univision entertainment gossip show, El Gordo y La Flaca, so there is NO link -----kay?!1

HooKAY, here we go:

Now, we know that the Univision-Miami outlet is a hub of the Cuban Exile community. We also know that the younger Exile generations are not rabidly wingnut and CIA as their parents and grandparents and have increased in Democratic voting.

Anyway, La Flaca ("the skinny female one") is the niece of more hardline Exiles Gloria ESTEFAN's hubby, and their whole family have been intimate guests and supporters of the B.F.E.E. ever since the Poppy days.

So, anyway, they did some clips from the concert, and La Flaca was flabbergasted at what to most of us would seem like unnoticeable things:

That Juanes wore a "Rock'n'Roll!" logo on his cap. She said that Rock used to be verboten, no Beatles, no nothing.

That Olga TANON, did the Catholic blessing of herself on the stage. La Flaca said that when her family ran out of or were run out of Cuba, any kind of religious observance was banned and that anybody trying to enter a church or show any sign would be chased down the street and mocked.

And that the tensions between the performers/organizers of the concert and the Cuban officials was high, and that minutes before departing the hotel for the stage, (Manuel?) BOSE, the Spaniard singer blew a gasket and threatened to call off the thing because the Cuban officials were demanding that the front row seats be given to selected students (read, "the kids of the officials"). An audio tape was played of BOSE yelling, "No!1 We have complied with all the rules and regulations that have been imposed on us, and this will not happen!1" The concert people had insisted that the admittance and seating be on a strictly egalitarian first-come-first-served basis, no special preferences.


Hookay, farewell, my poor little O.P. I'll be gone for a few hours so TAKE CARE of yourself 'cause YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN!1

[robinlynne]

1. guess what. The whole world has changed since the 1950s, not just Cuba.

surprise!
I'll tell you something even more shocking. There are gay people flaming all over the island. They are NOT in jail. surprise. I never heard anyone gay-bash once. And yet Americans believe otherwise.

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2. Did *I* write this article?!1 The surprise ain't MINE!1 But good for a KICK!1 n/t