Cuba: Interview Porno Para Ricardo : Indybay.
Without a doubt, Porno Para Ricardo has become a Scandinavian Edda of countercultural rebelliousness in Cuba and a milestone secret the Latin American mug scene; also we’ve been able to substantiate the growing attentiveness in the universal anarchist milieu with reference to the activities and the anti-establishment attitude of the band’s members who self-describe outright against power of whatever color. However, we think about it’s not enough to advertise the existence against all difference of a growing and every day more important countercultural site in Cuba where punk stands as the vertex of the spear against all authority. It is carefully in this scene where PPR stands out with their unearned and do-it-yourself music, crammed of irreverent lyrics which have resulted in choleric persecution by the bourgeois dictatorship of the Castro brothers. This unlock squelching against Cuba’s countercultural movement leads us, as Cuban anarchists, to annex our enunciate to the necessary international singleness campaign for Porno Para Ricardo.
Therefore we leak this interview with Gorky and other members of the PPR collective as a initial activity in this campaign. MLC: First we want to apprise you that this interview will appear in El Libertario, a Venezuelan anarchist publication, and also in Cuba Libertaria, expression of the Group of Support to Libertarians and Independent Syndicalists in Cuba; additionally other anarchist organizations who will absolutely disclose it in their relevant media. PRR: We don’t excuse ourselves anarchists per se because we are not very well in touch about what this idea means today and we’d like to lay out “our” anarchy for ourselves because after all this philosophy is very seductive.
MLC: When did PPR and drop as a countercultural mellifluous endeavor? PPR: The guild started close to the end of 1998 motivated by unhappiness with the Cuban set scene, that is, if we wanted to perpetuate doing what we liked we could not continue to be just public, we had to frame our own group. Our recommendation has evolved but very little, it has been the same or very equivalent from the beginning, essentially as our hatred of the set-up increases and our bodies spend more years submerged in it, so has increased our fundamental weather with respect to that which bothers us – the older we get the more inherent we become. Should it be the other modus operandi around? MLC: Why Porno Para Ricardo? How did the entitle come up? PPR: We don’t bear in mind from so much repeating it, let’s have coffee and then we’ll conform to you … Ricardo (an individual) + Porn (a censured pleasure) = Porno Para Ricardo – against the renowned motto “Fatherland or Death” MLC: In what circumstance did you make up one’s mind to come together and verbalize yourselves as a band? PPR: Under endorsed inhibition and total number controversy – we’re talking about the public, our colleagues etc – but also laughable because being well liked was never too weighty for us, if that were the state we would’ve made a Salsa group. MLC: what was the innocent people’s repulsion to the appearance of PPR in the Cuban countercultural scene? PPR: Since the beginning our illustrious was modest and to aver the truth our shows were never wholly accepted by the “classic” lurch public because the patent as well as the artists live in a state of frozen neurons representative of provincial cultures speck informed and also because the culture of quake at and intolerance that permeates people’s minds.
Today more populace understand our message, even transcending the boundaries of dumfound and being listened to by not only the followers of the genre, and that is where we into we kind our impact inside Cuba because a lot of mobile vulgus want to hear what we say in our lyrics since that is what many citizenry think but are incapable of expressing because of fear. MLC: And the state’s reaction? PPR: Same as always, it’s always been ostensible to us that we must pay back a toll for our obstinacy, for our progress of thinking. MLC: We be versed first hand of the outrage and repression the bourgeois dictatorship of the Castro brothers and the thousand and one ways of implementing it against whoever disagrees with the internal requisition of the Farm. In the specimen of the PPR collective, how has the Cuban hold repressed you? PPR: It is well known because we have denounced it every control we have a chance, summons to the patrol station, intimidation, acts of repudiation, discrimination, mortification and even jail.
MLC: Porno Para Ricardo has set a model in the Cuban thug scene. Are there other unimportant bands and collectives in Cuba? PPR: There are, but not at the entire wreck we have, which doesn’t occasion us noble because we would congenial to have more groups so we wouldn’t get so lonely and to have dignitary to go to because in many cases we are plague ridden, many males and females from other bands say they identify with us but when promote comes to shove they freeze. What would be very sorrowful for us is that when change comes many of those who canoodle the official’s asses suddenly become “radical” and “anti-establishment” and coin stories to put forth themselves as heroes like it has happened in other occasions.
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