Cuba Tiene Hambre: A Viral Video Makes the Rounds
This video is making the viral rounds in Cuban 'net circles, and throughout Latin America in general. "Cuba Tiene Hambre" has also spawned many a reggaeton fan remix. People are loading the audio clip onto phones as a ringtone, too. In the video, a "regular guy" identified as Pánfilo on the streets of Cuba is basically saying "What Cuba needs right now is FOOD. Cuba is HUNGRY." A timely viral phenom to be aware of as America's president makes public overtures to Cuba, and calls throughout the world for an end to the US embargo are renewed. (via Ned Sublette's list)
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I think what they need now is to huff less gasoline.
Or drink less antifreeze.
Clearly the dude is high as a kite.
That guy reminds me of Willie from the Neverhood.
Subtitles?
Despite embargo, U.S. is Cuba's main food supplier
By Weissert Will
Associated Press
Havana - Since 2003, one country has been the main supplier of food to Fidel Castro's Cuba: the United States.
those guys behind him don't look like they've been starving.
That is pretty funny if you speak Spanish. I was waiting for Keyboard Cat to play him off.
This guy and the nitrous kid should make an album.
I speak Spanish and these guys are clearly high and BTW they don't seem too malnourished to me.
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don't you see that the video is not about food?
the video is about freedom ...
you may give any degrading state to Pánfilo, like drunk or high, but he is telling a painful truth: PEOPLE IN CUBA IS HUNGRY FOR EVERYTHING
I feel like this would be more, um, whatever emotion it is supposed to invoke, if I could speak Spanish... or maybe just had some subtitles in English...
Whatever the case, you can safely expect Cuba to keep the US at arms length. As much as the rulers of Cuba would like a little more cash in their pockets that US could shell out, they really don't want tens of thousands of American tourist descending upon the island and their prime bogyman losing interest.
"America is the devil" is a pretty easy way to keep people united in accepting bad governance. When the US gets bored and stops giving reasons to justify bad governance in the name of defense, people start getting pissed off about ineffective government and a lack of cellphones. Having American tourists descending upon Havana and treating Cuba like it is a cross between Cancun and a living Cold War museum village is not going to help either. Hence, you see Fidel pushing back Obama's overtures while Raul is ready to scratch the US off the devil list and move on China style... which is to say get filthy rich while doing a fair job improving the lives of the people of Cuba.
Since Venezuela and Cuba are such good friends, maybe Hugo Chavez can pull an Aerosmith and send his rich citizens to the island for snackage. They could call it Soylent Red.
@12 I was thinking the same thing.
This may sound like a crazy theory, but I believe there's a small chance that Cuba can use the same soil fertile enough to grow potent weed to also create vegetable gardens.
It's Howlin' Wolf's Cuban voice-doppelganger!
So funny, definitely if you speak Spanish. Tremendo Borracho! Whatever... Some, from looking at the video, obviously aren't slacking for sustenance!
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@SednaBoo: subtitles?? cmon am from venezuela and I DONT understand cubans xD but they talk really funny i tell you that..
about the video, look like they need food and less alcohol (but mainly less alcohol xD)
I like the "reggaeton fan remix" very much. Thanks for this.
@ #10 Anonymous: Well I guess, existentially, we are ALL "hungry for everything" at some level. Fear breeds greed after all. Actual stomach-pinching hunger has a tendency to trump that, though.
Who cares if he's drunk, he speaks the truth!
If I was repressed, depressed, and starving I'd probably be drunk to...
People are starving in Cuba, STARVING!
Hunger is relative and a lot to do with yourself.
Some are hungry for food, other for love, health, shelter or wealth. But most of us for self realization which encompasses all of the above but it is, in reality ,a birth right.
From that prism your choices are narrowed to either be a martyr, a philosopher or to swim around the circumstances. That is another side of Darwinism. The rest is a puppets show.