* audio Audio | Gorki Aguila's 'Parodia del Ismaelillo'
http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/105999-a106195-t4.html
* audio Audio | Gorki Aguila's 'El Comandante' (Warning: Contains
explicit language)
http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/105999-a106193-t4.html
For punk rocker Gorki Aguila, nothing has changed in Cuba since Fidel
Castro ceded power to his brother nine months ago.
''Tyranny is present . . . even if he doesn't make a public
appearance,'' said the 38-year-old.
His band, Porno For Ricardo, is the leading exponent of underground
music, a flourishing movement today in a country where 1.5 million
people are too young to remember the better times before the economy
imploded with the end of Soviet subsidies in 1991.
The band's latest CD, whose title roughly translates as ''I don't like
politics, but she likes me, comrade,'' contains several profanity-laced
critical songs, including one titled El Comandante.
The band has been blackballed by the government, and Aguila has received
several police summonses for ''interviews.'' In 2003, he was arrested on
drug charges -- entrapment, he says -- and served two years in prison.
Just last week, authorities forbade his band to practice at his apartment.
But he says he will not leave Cuba, and hopes for a peaceful transition
to democracy.
''Change will come when the man dies and Number Two [Raúl] retires
gradually, to allow the installation of state capitalism,'' he said.
WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
-- EL NUEVO HERALD
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