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Release Carlos Puebla
Year 1973
Label Areito # LDA-3410
Format LP · Album
Country Cuba
Language Spanish
Songs here 2 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Carlos Puebla y Sus Tradicionales, Carlos Puebla; cite each song by its SongID

Carlos Puebla

1973 · Album · Areito # LDA-3410 · Cuba
2 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Anti-Imperialism, Vietnamese Patriotic.
Annotation
Carlos Puebla, born on 11 September 1917 in Manzanillo, Granma, Cuba. He died on 12 July 1989, Havana, Cuba. He was a prominent member of the Nueva trova movement, the Cuban offshoot of Nueva canción latinoamericana, linked with leftist social and political movement in South & Central America. This album (Areito # LDA-3410) featured two Vietanam War songs. The first was "El Ejemplo de Vietnam" ("Example of Vietnam") which suggested that the North Vietnamese victory over the US had spurred on the freedom movement in Puerto Rico, saying that it resembled the story of "the legend of Goliath, that giant, and little David who forced him to surrender". Likewise, the "Yankee has cannons...but Puerto Rico...has its people".1 Note that this song also featured on the album below. Furthermore, he had a different song called "David y Goliath" with a similar theme, released in 1970 on the LP Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America, above, on Paredon Records. The other song on this album was called "La gloria para Viet Nam" ("Glory fo Vietnam"). Released in Havana, Cuba.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collection
Songs from this release appear in this curated collection.
The songs
1.
Credited as Carlos Puebla Y Sus Tradicionales · 1973 · Album · Areito # LDA-3410 · Havana, Cuba · Carlos Puebla

Track A4. Compares Puerto Rico's independence struggle with the Vietnamese victory - David and Goliath. Also on Paredon P-1018 (1975).

2.
Credited as Carlos Puebla Y Sus Tradicionales · 1973 · Album · Areito # LDA-3410 · Havana, Cuba · Carlos Puebla

Track B3.