Willy Chirino speaks after controversy over meeting Michelle Mirabal

Cuban singer-songwriter Willy Cherino He revealed the details of his recent conversation with Castro’s communist artist Michel Mirabal in Miami.

The famous singer responded to the criticism he has received in recent days, bearing in mind that An interview with the Castro painter It was considered the crime of Cuban exile.

“I have always been consistent with my ideals, and for more than 50 years since I started my artistic career, I have almost given my music to the cause of Cuban freedom,” Willy Chirino said in a video posted on Tuesday that he had exclusive access to it Cubans around the worldHe also defended himself, claiming that “Wherever I stand, I raise my voice for the Cuban people.”

The singer confirmed that in his meeting with Michel Mirabal, he thanked the owner of the Flamingo Theater Bar, who assured him that a Cuban painter had called him, saying that he had work that he wanted to offer him. He explained that the meeting took place during a performance by the Cuban artist Kelvis Ochoa in that place he attended, and before enjoying the show he met Mirabal.

“That’s when before I went to see the show on the little balcony, we decided that Michelle Mirabal would give me work, that’s what happened, Bobby said to me, Look, he’s there waiting for you, come to my office, I come here, I walked in, and after 15 seconds he arrived” .

Willy Chirino confirmed that communist Michel Mirabal was “moved with tears” upon entering this position and gave him a “huge hug”. “Look, Willie,” Mirabal said to Chirino, “you don’t know the love your people profess for you, the Cubans love you so much.”

He also noted that Castro’s painter denied that he was a communist. “Here (Miami) they call me a communist, not a communist,” Mirabal said.

As Willy Chirino explains, the communist artist Castro told him that he “was someone in favor of repealing the two bans,” to which the Cuban singer-songwriter replied that he could also agree to this theory, but that first you had to bring down Castro’s dictatorship.

“To abolish the embargo from here, which continues until the embargo is lifted from there, we will drop the blockade imposed on the people by the Cuban dictatorship, and whatever happens, the other will collapse completely within 24 hours, and Cuba is left without privileges.”According to Willy, Mirabal called to “focus on that”, to which Castro’s painter was silent.

Willy Chirino asserted that he took the opportunity to explain to Castro Michel Mirabal that repression in Cuba began on January 1, 1959 with the arrival of Fidel Castro, and that the dictatorship, in addition to repression, “instilled fear in the veins of the people.”

“I lived it, I don’t talk to you because my parents told me, I lived this, because I was eleven years old when the revolution came to power,” Chirino told Mirabal, recalling “the terrible things that happened” at that time promoted by the communists.

Willy Chirino once again defended himself against confrontation with the Castro painter, arguing that he represented the anti-Castro musical image, while telling Mirabal that on some occasions he invited artists to his house who did not have the same. political ideas, but he does so with the intent of getting to know them a little and knowing ‘what makes them stand on the side of the revolution’, while urging others who have no point of view and are ‘in the middle’ to join the fight, raise your voice for the people, denounce the dictatorship and stand on the right side from history.

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The singer-songwriter indicated that he was aware that most of those who wrote to him about his meeting with Mirabal did so in good faith and alerted him to the origin of the character in question.

“I think he has more to lose than me in the eyes of the people he has to hold accountable inside Cuba because I am the musical image of the anti-Castro in the world, so he takes a picture with me, imagine Diaz-Canel and the other characters wondering what this guy is doing in his photo shoot with Willy Chirino.”

“Are you going to question me at this point?” sentenced the Cuban singer.

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