Cancion para un nino de Viet-Nam

Annotation

Political activist and musician Judith Reyes, born 22 March 1924, in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico, she died on 27 December 1988. The track "Cancion para un niño de Vietnam", which means "Song for a Child From Vietnam" takes an anti-war position, looking at the Vietnamese perspective, refering to the US soldiers that arrived from a distant land "that wounds and kills and burns your rice paddies". The narrator strongly condemned the American presence: "the gringo is the shame of humanity, if the gringo leaves you will see me happy". The back of the picture sleeve expressed anti-American, anti-imperialist sentiment, showing solidarity with Vietnam and countries across Central and South America: "the voice and the word of each verse of Judith Reyes are the instrument of the anxieties and urgent needs for justice, peace and freedom of the people of Mexico whom she loves so much. And, in her desperate impatience, she also calls with her songs to other peoples of the world; Viet Nam, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, to share with them those desires and thus make the sentence of condemnation against Yankee imperialism more universal; 'shame of humanity', sole culprit of all our…

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

About the artist

Born 22 March 1924, Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Died 27 December 1988.

In collections

Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs